101. Search forΘ+(1540)Pentaquark in High-Statistics Measurement ofγp→K¯0K+nat CLAS
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S. A. Morrow, C. Djalali, G. E. Dodge, P. V. Degtyarenko, P. Ambrozewicz, K. A. Griffioen, I. Niculescu, D. Lawrence, R. W. Gothe, R. A. Schumacher, J. Donnelly, G. Asryan, Ashot Gasparian, C. I O Gordon, Hall Crannell, S. Bültmann, P. Eugenio, L. Morand, O. P. Dzyubak, U. Thoma, A. V. Vlassov, S. Stepanyan, M. Bellis, J. Pierce, Avraham Klein, B. E. Stokes, P. Nadel-Turonski, T. Lee, Tsutomu Mibe, S. Niccolai, V. Gyurjyan, Federico Ronchetti, H. Avakian, M. Taiuti, J. Hardie, Y. Ilieva, V. Batourine, G. Ricco, J. Zhang, M. Y. Gabrielyan, G. S. Mutchler, J. P. Cummings, H. G. Juengst, M. Osipenko, L. C. Smith, H. Bagdasaryan, F. X. Girod, Gerard Gilfoyle, R. De Vita, A.V. Stavinsky, K. S. Egiyan, B. S. Ishkhanov, J. Langheinrich, J. Lachniet, A. Tkabladze, K. Mikhailov, A. Teymurazyan, I. Hleiqawi, Sylvain Bouchigny, D. J. Tedeschi, E. De Sanctis, J. J. Melone, B. Zhao, Friedrich Klein, Brian Raue, M. Kossov, N. A. Baltzell, F. Sabatié, I. Bedlinskiy, B. B. Niczyporuk, J. Goett, R. A. Miskimen, B. McKinnon, P. Rossi, D. I. Sober, V. V. Mochalov, N. Pivnyuk, Lorenzo Zana, S. L. Careccia, R. S. Hakobyan, Daniel S. Carman, K. V. Dharmawardane, D. G. Ireland, C. E. Hyde-Wright, J. R. Calarco, Sergey Kuleshov, M. Nozar, W. J. Briscoe, E. Pasyuk, P. Stoler, I. Nakagawa, L. Guo, M. Ungaro, M. Battaglieri, K. Joo, R. A. Niyazov, R. Bradford, B. A. Mecking, S. S. Stepanyan, A. Yegneswaran, D. Protopopescu, D. Branford, S. Pozdniakov, M. Garçon, M. Mirazita, J. M. Laget, K. Livingston, D. S. Dale, F. W. Hersman, G. Rosner, R. Nasseripour, J. Kuhn, J. P. Santoro, H. S. Jo, C. Salgado, J. D. Kellie, P. Coltharp, M. M. Ito, Atilla Gonenc, J. W. Price, K. L. Giovanetti, Larry Weinstein, Laird Kramer, M. Khandaker, K. Hicks, N. Guler, S. Strauch, K. Park, E. N. Golovach, M. Guidal, H. Egiyan, N. Baillie, E. Clinton, D. G. Jenkins, B. L. Berman, V. Mokeev, M. Holtrop, V. P. Kubarovsky, O. Pogorelko, P. L. Cole, C. Paterson, D. Doughty, Michael Wood, W. Kim, V. S. Serov, G. Niculescu, Cynthia Marie Hadjidakis, L. Todor, Michael Dugger, H. O. Funsten, I. I. Strakovsky, Ji Li, A. I. Ostrovidov, M. D. Mestayer, V. Sapunenko, Dinko Pocanic, Michael L. Williams, A. Deur, S. Boiarinov, Volker D. Burkert, S. E. Kuhn, A. S. Biselli, W. K. Brooks, C. Tur, Latifa Elouadrhiri, Shifeng Chen, R. C. Minehart, C. A. Meyer, G. V. Fedotov, D. P. Weygand, O. Glamazdin, Alexei V. Klimenko, Barry Ritchie, J. T. Goetz, Elton Smith, L. Gan, M. F. Vineyard, M. Anghinolfi, G. Gavalian, S. Tkachenko, N. Benmouna, M. Ripani, Y. G. Sharabian, G. Riccardi, C. Butuceanu, E. Wolin, J. P. Ball, Y. Prok, and D. G. Crabb
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Physics ,Particle physics ,Luminosity (scattering theory) ,Hyperon ,General Physics and Astronomy ,Strangeness ,Photon energy ,Pentaquark ,Baryon ,Nuclear physics ,Particle decay ,Exotic baryon ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
The exclusive reaction gammap-->K0K+n was studied in the photon energy range between 1.6 and 3.8 GeV searching for evidence of the exotic baryon Theta+ (1540)-->nK+. The decay to nK+requires the assignment of strangeness S=+1 to any observed resonance. Data were collected with the CLAS detector at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 70 pb-1. No evidence for the Theta+ pentaquark was found. Upper limits were set on the production cross section as function of center-of-mass angle and nK+ mass. The 95% C.L. upper limit on the total cross section for a narrow resonance at 1540 MeV was found to be 0.8 nb.
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- 2006