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First observation of the doubly charmed baryon Xi(+)(cc).

Authors :
Mattson M
Alkhazov G
Atamantchouk AG
Balatz MY
Bondar NF
Cooper PS
Dauwe LJ
Davidenko GV
Dersch U
Dolgolenko AG
Dzyubenko GB
Edelstein R
Emediato L
Endler AM
Engelfried J
Eschrich I
Escobar CO
Evdokimov AV
Filimonov IS
Garcia FG
Gaspero M
Giller I
Golovtsov VL
Gouffon P
Gülmez E
Kangling H
Iori M
Jun SY
Kaya M
Kilmer J
Kim VT
Kochenda LM
Konorov I
Kozhevnikov AP
Krivshich AG
Krüger H
Kubantsev MA
Kubarovsky VP
Kulyavtsev AI
Kuropatkin NP
Kurshetsov VF
Kushnirenko A
Kwan S
Lach J
Lamberto A
Landsberg LG
Larin I
Leikin EM
Yunshan L
Luksys M
Lungov T
Maleev VP
Mao D
Chensheng M
Zhenlin M
Mathew P
Matveev V
McCliment E
Moinester MA
Molchanov VV
Morelos A
Nelson KD
Nemitkin AV
Neoustroev PV
Newsom C
Nilov AP
Nurushev SB
Ocherashvili A
Oliveira E
Onel Y
Ozel E
Ozkorucuklu S
Penzo A
Petrenko SV
Pogodin P
Procario M
Prutskoi VA
Ramberg E
Rappazzo GF
Razmyslovich BV
Rud VI
Russ J
Schiavon P
Simon J
Sitnikov AI
Skow D
Smith VJ
Srivastava M
Steiner V
Stepanov V
Stutte L
Svoiski M
Terentyev NK
Thomas GP
Uvarov LN
Vasiliev AN
Vavilov DV
Verebryusov VS
Victorov VA
Vishnyakov VE
Vorobyov AA
Vorwalter K
You J
Wenheng Z
Shuchen Z
Zukanovich-Funchal R
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2002 Sep 09; Vol. 89 (11), pp. 112001. Date of Electronic Publication: 2002 Aug 20.
Publication Year :
2002

Abstract

We observe a signal for the doubly charmed baryon Xi(+)(cc) in the charged decay mode Xi(+)(cc)-->Lambda(+)(c)K-pi(+) in data from SELEX, the charm hadroproduction experiment at Fermilab. We observe an excess of 15.9 events over an expected background of 6.1+/-0.5 events, a statistical significance of 6.3sigma. The observed mass of this state is 3519+/-1 MeV/c(2). The Gaussian mass width of this state is 3 MeV/c(2), consistent with resolution; its lifetime is less than 33 fs at 90% confidence.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
0031-9007
Volume :
89
Issue :
11
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
12225136
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.112001