51. Measurement of the HΛ3 lifetime in Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
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Q. H. Xu, J. W. Harris, F. Videbæk, G. Webb, Sukalyan Chattopadhyay, T. Kollegger, S. Mizuno, Z. Feng, J. Xu, M. Lomnitz, D. Kalinkin, W. J. Llope, C. Zhou, D. L. Olvitt, E. P. Sichtermann, S. Heppelmann, B. J. Summa, P. Bhattarai, F. Liu, Miroslav Simko, N. Kulathunga, N. Xu, Guo-Liang Ma, P. Filip, Li Yi, P. Sorensen, Y. F. Wu, Mariusz Przybycien, X. G. Luo, Alexander Jentsch, K. Poniatowska, A. S. Hirsch, Siwei Luo, P. Kravtsov, A. M. Schmah, G. D. Westfall, Dmitry Smirnov, G. Eppley, S. Das, A. H. Tang, N. Magdy, Peng Huo, C-Q. Li, A. Attri, Giacomo Contin, A. Gupta, Bedangadas Mohanty, S. Ramachandran, O. Eyser, Joseph Kwasizur, A. Harlenderova, Md. Nasim, R. D. Majka, R. Witt, J. Alford, I. Bunzarov, D. Kapukchyan, J. Pluta, J. M. Campbell, M. Zyzak, J. D. Brandenburg, Guannan Xie, Xuan Zhang, J. L. Drachenberg, Tetsuro Sugiura, Zebo Tang, W. Guryn, N. Chankova-Bunzarova, Y. J. Sun, Jiangyong Jia, R. Lacey, S. Mioduszewski, M. J. Rehbein, Christina Markert, P. Federicova, W. Li, X. C. Chen, T. Ullrich, M. Shao, G. Van Buren, P. Chaloupka, Ting Lin, J. Schambach, C. Dilks, Anju Bhasin, J. D. Roth, D. N. Brown, G. J. van Nieuwenhuizen, Hanna Paulina Zbroszczyk, J. Bryslawskyj, A. K. Bhati, Rene Bellwied, L. Didenko, T. G. Dedovich, D. Keane, Prithwish Tribedy, B. K. Srivastava, O. Rusnakova, S. Kabana, K. Kang, T. Niida, M. Sergeeva, S. S. Shi, R. E. Tribble, H. Z. Huang, Wei Xie, M. K. Mustafa, S. Vokal, J. Rusnak, A. F. Kraishan, L. Ruan, S. Trentalange, A. Lebedev, I. K. Yoo, Z. Shi, Y. Fisyak, Lin Ma, K. Oh, A. Aparin, Olga Evdokimov, Barbara Antonina Trzeciak, Anthony Robert Timmins, J. Fujita, Jize Zhao, H. S. Matis, L. K. Kosarzewski, W. W. Jacobs, H. Liu, L. G. Efimov, T. K. Nayak, J. Lauret, Abdel Nasser Tawfik, R. Reed, J. Fedorisin, K. N. Barish, M. Saur, P. V. Shanmuganathan, Jay Roberts, C. Perkins, T. Todoroki, Y. Li, O. D. Tsai, Chong Kim, J. M. Nelson, Roli Esha, M. M. Mondal, C. E. Flores, E. G. Judd, Y. Pandit, A. V. Brandin, Muhammad Usman Ashraf, R. S. Longacre, Daniel Nemes, Adam Ryszard Kisiel, H. J. Crawford, J. K. Adkins, S. Horvat, T. Tarnowsky, Benjamin Schweid, T. J. Humanic, H. G. Ritter, W. Q. Shen, N. Schmitz, D. Arkhipkin, B. S. Page, K. Krueger, Avishek Chatterjee, A. Hamed, Sergey Voloshin, Michal Sumbera, L. C. Bland, P. Seyboth, D. P. Kikola, E. Shahaliev, Z. Chang, R. Fatemi, L. He, R. Lednicky, L. Kochenda, P. Federic, Y. G. Ma, B. Stringfellow, A. A. P. Suaide, K. Jiang, M. Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, A. I. Hamad, Y. Wang, Sedigheh Jowzaee, Rafal Sikora, Shangfeng Yang, J. H. Chen, Zhigang Xiao, David Stewart, T. Huang, Sevil Salur, G. Igo, S. Fazio, Zongye Zhang, Yunpeng Liu, Derek Anderson, M. Kocmanek, Peng Liu, N. G. Minaev, I. G. Bordyuzhin, Leszek Adamczyk, B. Pawlik, Y. Panebratsev, D. Grosnick, M. J. Skoby, Frank Jm Geurts, S. W. Wissink, Y. Zhang, M. R. Girard, J. C. Dunlop, L. Wen, Zubayer Ahammed, J. Bouchet, L. Krauth, Vipul Bairathi, W. Zha, B. Huang, I. Upsal, Jana Bielcikova, J. Thäder, J. R. Adams, A. A. Derevschikov, Y. F. Xu, M. Posik, D. A. Morozov, Z. W. Miller, R. Aoyama, K. D. Landry, K. Kauder, A. Taranenko, J. E. Draper, J. L. Romero, W. Christie, E. C. Aschenauer, S. Margetis, Subhash Singha, Andrey Vasiliev, Irakli Chakaberia, Z. Z. Xu, Arabinda Behera, S. Zhang, Dukhishyam Mallick, H. M. Spinka, Nikita Smirnov, J. Y. Zhang, E. Finch, D. G. Underwood, X. Dong, K. Meehan, N. Yu, Xuedong Bai, M. Cherney, Xiangming Sun, D. N. Svirida, Q. Y. Shou, L. V. Nogach, J. Porter, Lokesh Kumar, Jian Deng, Jindrich Lidrych, J. Putschke, Xiaofeng Zhu, Hua Pei, S. K. Tripathy, N. K. Pruthi, X. M. Sun, Ivan Kisel, R. Pak, G. Wang, J. Cheng, A. Ogawa, X.G. Li, Y. Guo, Jongmin Lee, C. Yang, R. Seto, R. L. Ray, R. Ma, G. Agakishiev, D. S. Gunarathne, N. Herrmann, T. Ljubicic, Janet Elizabeth Seger, J. H. Thomas, H. Caines, L. P. Zhou, S. B. Nurushev, A. Quintero, H. W. Ke, L. Fulek, I. M. Deppner, G. S. Averichev, D. Cebra, Zhanwen Zhu, Y. Yang, J. Kvapil, Justin Ewigleben, Nilay Shah, A. Gibson, C. Zhong, K. Yip, Vitaly Okorokov, Z. Ye, D. Tlusty, Bernd Surrow, Maowu Nie, X. Huang, A. Kechechyan, Niladribihari Sahoo, Pradip Kumar Sahu, T. Nonaka, Z. H. Khan, J. M. Butterworth, N. Elsey, J. Engelage, N. N. Ajitanand, G. Nigmatkulov, J. C. Webb, D. Mayes, J. M. Landgraf, M. Tokarev, M. Strikhanov, W. Solyst, T. D. S. Stanislaus, H. H. Wieman, W. B. Schmidke, G. Odyniec, J. Sandweiss, I. G. Alekseev, M. A. Lisa, J. C. Mei, C. A. Gagliardi, Jaroslav Bielcik, Jie Zhang, O. V. Rogachevskiy, Madan M. Aggarwal, Fuqiang Wang, D. K. Mishra, A. Vossen, S. Esumi, and Qi Yang
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Nuclear physics ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,0103 physical sciences ,Chatterjee ,010306 general physics ,Hypernucleus ,Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider ,01 natural sciences ,Hypertriton - Abstract
Author(s): Adamczyk, L; Adams, JR; Adkins, JK; Agakishiev, G; Aggarwal, MM; Ahammed, Z; Ajitanand, NN; Alekseev, I; Alford, J; Anderson, DM; Aoyama, R; Aparin, A; Arkhipkin, D; Aschenauer, EC; Ashraf, MU; Attri, A; Averichev, GS; Bai, X; Bairathi, V; Barish, K; Behera, A; Bellwied, R; Bhasin, A; Bhati, AK; Bhattarai, P; Bielcik, J; Bielcikova, J; Bland, LC; Bordyuzhin, IG; Bouchet, J; Brandenburg, JD; Brandin, AV; Brown, D; Bryslawskyj, J; Bunzarov, I; Butterworth, J; Caines, H; Calderon De La Barca Sanchez, M; Campbell, JM; Cebra, D; Chakaberia, I; Chaloupka, P; Chang, Z; Chankova-Bunzarova, N; Chatterjee, A; Chattopadhyay, S; Chen, X; Chen, X; Chen, JH; Cheng, J; Cherney, M; Christie, W; Contin, G; Crawford, HJ; Das, S; Dedovich, TG; Deng, J; Deppner, IM; Derevschikov, AA; Didenko, L; Dilks, C; Dong, X; Drachenberg, JL; Draper, JE; Dunlop, JC; Efimov, LG; Elsey, N; Engelage, J; Eppley, G; Esha, R; Esumi, S; Evdokimov, O; Ewigleben, J; Eyser, O; Fatemi, R; Fazio, S; Federic, P; Federicova, P; Fedorisin, J; Feng, Z; Filip, P; Finch, E; Fisyak, Y; Flores, CE; Fujita, J | Abstract: An improved measurement of the HΛ3 lifetime is presented. In this paper, the mesonic decay modes HΛ3→He3 + π- and HΛ3→d+p+π- are used to reconstruct the HΛ3 from Au+Au collision data collected by the STAR collaboration at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A minimum χ2 estimation is used to determine the lifetime of τ=142-21+24(stat.)±29(syst.) ps. This lifetime is about 50% shorter than the lifetime τ=263±2 ps of a free Λ, indicating strong hyperon-nucleon interaction in the hypernucleus system. The branching ratios of the mesonic decay channels are also determined to satisfy B.R.(He3+π-)/(B.R.(He3+π-)+B.R.(d+p+π-))=0.32±0.05(stat.)±0.08(syst.). Our ratio result favors the assignment J(HΛ3)=12 over J(HΛ3)=32. These measurements will help to constrain models of hyperon-baryon interactions.
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