Search for the Weak Decay of a Lightly Bound H Dibaryon

Abstract

We present results of a search for a neutral, six-quark, dibaryon state called the \h, a state predicted to exist in several theoretical models. Observation of such a state would signal the discovery of a new form of hadronic matter. Analyzing data collected by experiment E799-II, using the KTeV detector at Fermilab, we searched for the decay $H^0 \to Λp \piminus$ and found no candidate events. We exclude the region of lightly bound mass states just below the $\Lambda \Lambda$ mass threshold, $2.194~\gev < M_H < 2.231$~\gev, with lifetimes from $\sim$$5\times 10^{-10}$~sec to $\sim$$1\times 10^{-3}$~sec.

4 pages, 5 figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters

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