Study of excited charm-strange baryons with evidence for new baryons {xi}{sub c}(3055){sup +} and {xi}{sub c}(3123){sup +}

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2008 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.77.012002· OSTI ID:21035673

Aubert, B; Bona, M; Boutigny, D; Karyotakis, Y; Lees, J P; Poireau, V; Prudent, X; Tisserand, V; Zghiche, A ^[1]; Garra Tico, J; Grauges, E ^[2]; Lopez, L; Palano, A; Pappagallo, M ^[3]; Eigen, G; Stugu, B; Sun, L ^[4]; Abrams, G S; Battaglia, M; Brown, D N ^[5]

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1. Laboratoire de Physique des Particules, IN2P3/CNRS et Universite de Savoie, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux (France)
2. Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Fisica, Departament ECM, E-08028 Barcelona (Spain)
3. Universita di Bari, Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, I-70126 Bari (Italy)
4. University of Bergen, Institute of Physics, N-5007 Bergen (Norway)
5. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)

We present a study of excited charm-strange baryon states produced in e{sup +}e{sup -} annihilations at or near a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV, in a data sample with an integrated luminosity of 384 fb{sup -1} recorded with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II e{sup +}e{sup -} storage rings at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. We study strong decays of charm-strange baryons to {lambda}{sub c}{sup +}K{sub S}{sup 0}, {lambda}{sub c}{sup +}K{sup -}, {lambda}{sub c}{sup +}K{sup -}{pi}{sup +}, {lambda}{sub c}{sup +}K{sub S}{sup 0}{pi}{sup -}, {lambda}{sub c}{sup +}K{sub S}{sup 0}{pi}{sup -}{pi}{sup +}, and {lambda}{sub c}{sup +}K{sup -}{pi}{sup +}{pi}{sup -}. This study confirms the existence of the states {xi}{sub c}(2980){sup +}, {xi}{sub c}(3077){sup +}, and {xi}{sub c}(3077){sup 0}, with a more accurate determination of the {xi}{sub c}(2980){sup +} mass and width. We also present evidence for two new states, {xi}{sub c}(3055){sup +} and {xi}{sub c}(3123){sup +}, decaying through the intermediate-resonant modes {sigma}{sub c}(2455){sup ++}K{sup -} and {sigma}{sub c}(2520){sup ++}K{sup -}, respectively. For each of these baryons, we measure the yield in each final state, determine the statistical significance, and calculate the product of the production cross section and branching fractions. We also measure the masses and widths of these excited charm-strange baryons.

• OSTI ID: 21035673
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.012002; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). BABAR Collaboration; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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