Study of the rare hyperon decay Omega \to Xi π^+ π^-

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2010-08-25

arxiv.org/abs/1008.4405v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Experiment

6 pages, 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Lett. B

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2010.08.037

We report a new measurement of the decay \Omega^- \to \Xi^- \pi^+ \pi^- with 76 events and a first observation of the decay \Omega^+ \to \Xi^+ \pi^+ \pi^- with 24 events, yielding a combined branching ratio (3.74 ^{+0.67}_{-0.56}) \times 10^{-4}. This represents a factor 25 increase in statistics over the best previous measurement. No evidence is seen for CP violation, with B(\Omega^- \to \Xi^- \pi^+ \pi^-)=4.04^{+0.83}_{-0.71} \times 10^{-4} and B(\Omega^+ \to \Xi^+ \pi^+ \pi^-)=3.15^{+1.12}_{-0.89} \times 10^{-4}. Contrary to theoretical expectation, we see little evidence for the decays \Omega^- \to \Xi_{1530}^{*0} \pi^- and \Omega^+ \to \Xi_{1530}^{*0} \pi^+ and place a 90% C.L. upper limit on the combined branching ratio B(\Omega^-(\Omega^+) \to \Xi^{*0}_{1530}(\Xi^{*0}_{1530}) \pi^\mp)<7.0 \times 10^{-5}.

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