1. Search for Exotic Baryons in 800 GeV pp (rtarrow) pXiPiX
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Christian, D. C., Felix, J., Gottschalk, E. E., Hartouni, E. P., Knapp, B. C., Kreisler, M. N., Moreno, G., Reyes, M. A., Sosa, M., Wang, M. H. L. S., and Wehmann, A.
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High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
We report the results of a high-statistics, sensitive search for narrow baryon resonances decaying to $\Xi^-\pi^-$, $\Xi^-\pi^+$, $\bar{\Xi}^+\pi^-$, and $\bar{\Xi}^+\pi^+$. The only resonances observed are the well known $\Xi^0(1530)$ and $\bar{\Xi^0}(1530)$. No evidence is found for a state near 1862 MeV, previously reported by NA49\cite{NA49}. At the 95% confidence level, we find the upper limit for the production of a Gaussian enhancement with $\sigma=7.6$ MeV in the $\Xi^-\pi^-$ effective mass spectrum to be 0.3% of the number of observed $\Xi^0(1530)\to\Xi^-\pi^+$. We find similarly restrictive upper limits for an enhancement at 1862 MeV in the $\Xi^-\pi^+$, $\bar{\Xi}^+\pi^-$, and $\bar{\Xi}^+\pi^+$ mass spectra., Comment: Submitted to PRL
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- 2005
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