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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Search for pentaquarks states in Z decays

Maria SmizanskaS. DhamotharanW. ZhaoGiovanna SelvaggiN. A. RobertsonStephanie BrandtMarkus FrankSteven WasserbaechAndrea ValassiS. XueGeorg ZobernigR. XuD. DecampM. G. GreenRichard CavanaughAran Garcia-bellidoFranco LigabueWerner WiedenmannJ H. Von Wimmersperg-tollerC. GrupenM. DavierH. VideauS. GonzalezK. TittelMarco CattaneoKonrad KleinknechtA. PutzerJ.d. HansenV. ChiarellaF. GianottiVitaliano CiulliBenjamin TrocméG. MaggiU. BlumenscheinQ. OuyangA. MisiejukJ. J. VeilletT. R. EdgecockS. DessagneSalvatore NuzzoP. GirtlerG. BencivenniBarbara ClerbauxA. VayakiJ. P. LeesS. SchaelGiacomo SguazzoniBoris TuchmingIan R TomalinPaul HankeA. BonissentRoberto TenchiniDuccio AbbaneoH. G. SanderV. M. GheteG.p. MurtasC. K. BowderyC. N. BoothElizabeth LocciG. HughesJ. JoussetC. MarkouI. De BonisTommaso BoccaliR. BeuselinckA. BöhrerH. RuizFrancesco RagusaGiuseppe ZitoEttore FocardiJohn RanderE. MerleY. B. PanPeter HansenC. GewenigerW. CameronF. HölldorferJ.j. WardJ. NowellS.r. ArmstrongV. HeppA.c. KraanA. RanieriFabrizio PallaM. GironeE. E. KlugeM. WunschA. RougéYuehong XieX. HuangL. GarridoGiuseppe BagliesiL. PassalacquaDominique PallinF. CombleyDonato CreanzaJohn T HarveyAlessandro GiassiS. JinJ. KennedyF. RanjardG. MannocchiN. De FilippisP. CoyleB. RenkFabio CeruttiR. W. ClifftAlain FalvardPaolo LaurelliM. C. LemaireG.a. BlairO. CallotA.-s. MüllerEmmerich KneringerA.s. ThompsonJ. PutzT. MedcalfGiuseppe RasoF. FosterPere MatoP. A. McnamaraGerardo GanisG. DissertoriR. WhiteF. BossiKarl JakobsA. PachecoP. ColasJ.g. LynchG. B. TaylorP. TempestaT. ZieglerB. FabbroPaolo AzzurriG. LütjensRoger JonesR. BrunelièreG. SanguinettiNancy MarinelliJ. K. SedgbeerOliver BuchmullerM. MartinezP. R. NortonLucia SilvestrisJ. RothbergF. TeubertG. EllisA. MoutoussiAlessia TricomiMaria Pilar CasadoDavid HutchcroftA. EaletM.r. PearsonJ. C. BrientChristian ZeitnitzAndre TilquinE. SimopoulouY. S. GaoGavin DaviesV. O'sheaM H. LehtoM. ChmeissaniDjamel Eddine BoumedieneLaurent SerinSau Lan WuM. Fernandez-bosmanMassimo AntonelliJ.r. HansenJ. KileS. MonteilPh. HeusseJ. M. CrespoF. MartinB.s. NilssonF. BadaudK. ZachariadouG. PrangeD. FouchezA. JacholkowskaChristophe DelaereH. G. MoserTimothy BarklowMarumi KadoL. RolandiC. CurtilAlan LitkeMario MaggiL. ZhangEric LanconG. RudolphA. AntonelliO. Van Der AaB. Bloch-devauxJ.a. StrongG. GianniniO.j. HayesR. SettlesD. FayolleJohn-bjarne HansenLorenzo FoàC. BoreanS.a. RutherfordP. TeixeiraAnna ColaleoB. JostAlberto MessineoD. SchlatterLaurent DuflotLester D.r. ThompsonJean-francois GrivazD.p. ClarkeJ. BoucrotK. HüttmannS. BravoJunjie WuP. J. DornanA. DavidE. FernandezO. AwunorPatrick JanotM. VillegasKyle CranmerG. LeibenguthM. N. MinardA. BlondelV. LemaireH. HeB. VallageR. BarateH. WachsmuthP. NegusH. DietlH. DietlS. L. CartwrightJiali LinJ.c. ThompsonD.p.s. FergusonEvelina Vassileva Bouhova-thackerP. PayreGiuseppe IaselliF. KayserAndrea SciabàPascal PerretI. VideauW. MännerW. MännerC. GoyRoger FortyPaolo SpagnoloS. SchmelingA. NgacAndrea GiammancoJ. NielsenF. MachefertHasko StenzelStéphane JézéquelJie ZhangG. ParriniJ. HessAristotelis KyriakisK. BerkelmanPaul HodgsonPiero Giorgio VerdiniB. MichelPablo Rodriguez PerezGy. WolfG. A. CowanH. DrevermannH. HuB. PietrzykD. KuhnM. De PalmaAndrea VenturiTa-wei WangJ.m. PascoloAlexander FinchF. RuggieriG. CaponXin Wu

subject

QuarkPhysics1221Particle physicsAlephNuclear and High Energy Physics010308 nuclear & particles physicsHigh Energy Physics::LatticeHadronNuclear TheoryHigh Energy Physics::PhenomenologyExotic hadronState (functional analysis)01 natural sciencesPentaquarkNuclear physicsbaryons mass soliton model0103 physical sciencesQC770[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]Physique des particules élémentairesProduction (computer science)High Energy Physics::Experiment010306 general physicsNuclear Experiment

description

Exotic hadrons made of five quarks (pentaquarks) are searched for in hadronic Z decays collected by the ALEPH detector at LEP. No significant signal is observed. At 95% C.L. upper limits are set on the production rates N of such particles and their charge-conjugate state per Z decay: N Θ(1535)+·BR(Θ(1535)+→pK S0)<6.2×10-4, N Ε(1862)-·BR(Ε(1862)-→Ε -π-)<4.5×10-4, N Ε(1862)0·BR(Ε(1862)0→Ε -π+)<8.9×10-4, N Θc(3100)0·BR(Θc(3100) 0→D*-p)<6.3×10-4, N Θc(3100)0·BR(Θc(3100) 0→D-p)<31×10-4. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

10.1016/j.physletb.2004.08.021http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/113941