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Phys. Rev. D 75, 032003 (2007) [9 pages]

Search for exotic S=-2 baryons in pp̅ collisions at s=1.96  TeV

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A. Abulencia et al. CDF Collaboration
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Received 28 December 2006; published 8 February 2007

A search for a manifestly exotic S=-2 baryon state decaying to Ξ-π-, and its neutral partner decaying to Ξ-π+, has been performed using 220  pb-1 of pp̅ collisions at s=1.96  TeV collected by the Collider Detector at Fermilab. The Ξ- trajectories were measured in a silicon tracker before their decay, resulting in a sample with low background and excellent position resolution. No evidence was found for S=-2 pentaquark candidates in the invariant mass range of 1600–2100  MeV/c2. Upper limits on the product of pentaquark production cross section times its branching fraction to Ξ-π+,-, relative to the cross section of the well-established Ξ(1530) resonance, are presented for neutral and doubly negative candidates with pT>2  GeV/c and |y|<1 as a function of pentaquark mass. At 1862  MeV/c2, these upper limits for neutral and doubly negative final states were found to be 3.2% and 1.7% at the 90% confidence level, respectively.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.75.032003
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.75.032003
PACS:
13.85.Rm, 14.20.−c