Pentaquark at JLab: the g11 experiment in CLAS

Conference · Sat Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 2005

OSTI ID:876414

Battaglieri, M; Vita, R De; Kubarovsky, Valery

After the claiming of the possible discovery of a pentaquark state, many experiments reported positive and negative results opening a discussion about the pentaquark existence. New experiments with high resolution and high statistics are needed to solve the controversy. Jefferson Lab started a comprehensive program to search for pentaquark in photoproduction at threshold on proton and deuteron targets, collecting more than 10 times the existing statistics. The first experiment on the proton (g11) just finished to analyze the data and in a short time will be able to report about the pentaquark search.

• Research Organization: Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE - Office of Energy Research (ER)
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-84ER40150
• OSTI ID: 876414
• Report Number(s): JLAB-PHY-05-35; DOE/ER/40150-3757
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
DEUTERIUM TARGET
OPENINGS
PHOTOPRODUCTION
PROTONS
RESOLUTION
STATISTICS