Evidence for a narrow |S|=1 baryon state at a mass of 1528 MeV in quasi-real photoproduction

Details Evidence for a narrow |S|=1 baryon state at a mass of 1528 MeV in quasi-real photoproduction Evidence for a narrow |S|=1 baryon state at a mass of 1528 MeV in quasi-real photoproduction

2003-12-16

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0312044v2

Phys.Lett.B585:213,2004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

8 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2004.01.079

Evidence for a narrow baryon state is found in quasi-real photoproduction on a deuterium target through the decay channel p K^0_S --> p pi^+ pi^-. A peak is observed in the p K^0_S invariant mass spectrum at 1528 +/- 2.6 (stat) +/-2.1 (syst) MeV. Depending on the background model,the naive statistical significance of the peak is 4--6 standard deviations and its width may be somewhat larger than the experimental resolution of sigma=4.3 -- 6.2 MeV. This state may be interpreted as the predicted S=+1 exotic Theta^{+}(uuddbar(s)) pentaquark baryon. No signal for an hypothetical Theta^{++} baryon was observed in the pK^+ invariant mass distribution. The absence of such a signal indicates that an isotensor Theta is excluded and an isovector Theta is unlikely.

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