High Statistics Search for the Theta+(1.54) Pentaquark State

M. J. Longo; R. A. Burnstein; A. Chakravorty; Y. C. Chen; W. S. Choong; K. Clark; E. C. Dukes; C. Durandet; J. Felix; Y. Fu; G. Gidal; H. R. Gustafson; T. Holmstrom; M. Huang; C. James; C. M. Jenkins; T. Jones; D. M. Kaplan; L. M. Lederman; N. Leros; F. Lopez; L. C. Lu; W. Luebke; K. B. Luk; K. S. Nelson; H. K. Park; J. -P. Perroud; D. Rajaram; H. A. Rubin; J. Volk; C. G. White; S. White; P. Zyla

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.111101

paper

High Statistics Search for the Theta+(1.54) Pentaquark State

arXiv:hep-ex/0410027 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.70.111101

Abstract

We have searched for Theta+(1.54) -> K0,p decays using data from the 1999 run of the HyperCP experiment at Fermilab. We see no evidence for a narrow peak in the K0,p mass distribution near 1.54 GeV/c among 106,000 K0,p candidates, and obtain an upper limit for the fraction of Theta+(1.54) to K0,p candidates of <0.3% at 90% confidence.

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