Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Experiment
Scientific paper
2004-06-11
Phys.Lett.B628:18-24,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
11 pages, 6 included eps figures. v2 includes improved statistical method to determine significance of observation. Submitted
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physletb.2005.09.043
We observes a signal for the double charm baryon Xi_cc+ in the charged decay mode Xi_cc+ -> p D+ K- to complement the previously reported decay Xi_cc+ -> Lambda_c K- pi+ in data from SELEX, the charm hadro-production experiment (E781) at Fermilab. In this new decay mode we observe an excess of 5.62 events over an expected background estimated by event mixing to be 1.38+/-0.13 events. The Poisson probability that a background fluctuation can produce the apparent signal is less than 6.4E-4. The observed mass of this state is (3518+/-3)MeV/c^2, consistent with the published result. Averaging the two results gives a mass of (3518.7+/-1.7)MeV/c^2. The observation of this new weak decay mode confirms the previous SELEX suggestion that this state is a double charm baryon. The relative branching ratio Gamma(Xi_cc+ -> pD+K-)/Gamma(Xi_cc+ -> Lambda_c K- pi+) = 0.36+/-0.21.
Engelfried Jurgen
Moinester Murray A.
Ocherashvili Aharon
Russ J.
The SELEX Collaboration
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