Search for the Theta+ pentaquark in the reaction gammad --> pK-K+n.

Academic Article

Abstract

  • A search for the Theta+ in the reaction gammad --> pK-K+n was completed using the CLAS detector at Jefferson Lab. A study of the same reaction, published earlier, reported the observation of a narrow Theta+ resonance. The present experiment, with more than 30 times the integrated luminosity of our earlier measurement, does not show any evidence for a narrow pentaquark resonance. The angle-integrated upper limit on Theta+ production in the mass range of 1.52-1.56 GeV/c2 for the gammad --> pK-Theta+ reaction is 0.3 nb (95% C.L.). This upper limit depends on assumptions made for the mass and angular distribution of Theta+ production. Using Lambda(1520) production as an empirical measure of rescattering in the deuteron, the cross section upper limit for the elementary gamman --> K-Theta+ reaction is estimated to be a factor of 10 higher, i.e., approximately 3 nb (95% C.L.).
  • Authors

  • McKinnon, B
  • Hicks, K
  • Baltzell, NA
  • Carman, DS
  • Mestayer, MD
  • Mibe, T
  • Mirazita, M
  • Niccolai, S
  • Rossi, P
  • Stepanyan, S
  • Tedeschi, DJ
  • Ambrozewicz, P
  • Anghinolfi, M
  • Asryan, G
  • Avakian, H
  • Bagdasaryan, H
  • Baillie, N
  • Ball, JP
  • Batourine, V
  • Battaglieri, M
  • Bedlinskiy, I
  • Bellis, M
  • Benmouna, N
  • Berman, BL
  • Biselli, AS
  • Bouchigny, S
  • Boiarinov, S
  • Bradford, R
  • Branford, D
  • Briscoe, WJ
  • Brooks, WK
  • Bültmann, S
  • Burkert, VD
  • Butuceanu, C
  • Calarco, JR
  • Careccia, SL
  • Chen, S
  • Cole, PL
  • Collins, P
  • Coltharp, P
  • Crabb, D
  • Crede, V
  • Dale, D
  • De Masi, R
  • DeVita, R
  • De Sanctis, E
  • Degtyarenko, PV
  • Deur, A
  • Djalali, C
  • Dodge, GE
  • Donnelly, J
  • Doughty, D
  • Dugger, M
  • Dzyubak, OP
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  • Fedotov, G
  • Feldman, G
  • Funsten, H
  • Gabrielyan, M
  • Gan, L
  • Garçon, M
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  • Gavalian, G
  • Gilfoyle, GP
  • Giovanetti, KL
  • Girod, FX
  • Goetz, JT
  • Gonenc, A
  • Gothe, RW
  • Griffioen, KA
  • Guidal, M
  • Guler, N
  • Guo, L
  • Gyurjyan, V
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  • Hersman, FW
  • Hleiqawi, I
  • Holtrop, Maurik
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  • Ireland, DG
  • Ishkhanov, BS
  • Ito, MM
  • Jenkins, D
  • Jo, HS
  • Joo, K
  • Juengst, HG
  • Kellie, JD
  • Khandaker, M
  • Kim, W
  • Klein, A
  • Klein, FJ
  • Kossov, M
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  • Kuhn, SE
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  • Lachniet, J
  • Langheinrich, J
  • Lawrence, D
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  • Meyer, CA
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  • Niczyporuk, BB
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  • Park, K
  • Pasyuk, E
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  • Pierce, J
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  • Price, JW
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  • Ritchie, BG
  • Ronchetti, F
  • Rosner, G
  • Sabatié, F
  • Salgado, C
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  • Schumacher, RA
  • Serov, VS
  • Sharabian, YG
  • Smith, ES
  • Smith, LC
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  • Stavinsky, A
  • Stepanyan, SS
  • Stokes, BE
  • Stoler, P
  • Strakovsky, II
  • Strauch, S
  • Taiuti, M
  • Teymurazyan, A
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  • Vineyard, MF
  • Vlassov, AV
  • Weinstein, LB
  • Weygand, DP
  • Williams, M
  • Wolin, E
  • Wood, MH
  • Yegneswaran, A
  • Zana, L
  • Zhang, J
  • Zhao, B
  • Zhao, Z
  • CLAS Collaboration
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • June 2, 2006
  • Has Subject Area

    Published In

    Keywords

  • CLAS Collaboration
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Pubmed Id

  • 16803230
  • Start Page

  • 212001
  • Volume

  • 96
  • Issue

  • 21