Physics – Nuclear Physics – Nuclear Experiment
Scientific paper
2005-09-30
Int.J.Mod.Phys. A21 (2006) 825-830
Physics
Nuclear Physics
Nuclear Experiment
To appear in proceedings of International Conference on QCD and Hadron Physics at Beijing, June 2005
Scientific paper
10.1142/S0217751X06032101
We present results on pentaquark searches from nuclear collisions at RHIC with the STAR detector system. An intriguing peak has been observed in the invariant mass distribution of $pK^{+}+\overline{p}K^{-}$ from 18.6 Million d+Au collision events at $\sqrt{s_{_{NN}}} = 200$~GeV. The peak centers at a mass $1528 \pm 2 \pm 5$~MeV/c$^{2}$ and the FWHM $\sim15$ MeV/c$^{2}$ limited by detector responses. The statistical significance of the peak is $4.2\sigma$. Such a state if confirmed is manifestly exotic and implies a family of isospin one states. A weak signal of less statistical significance ($\sim3\sigma$) has been observed in 5.6M Au+Au collision events at 62.4 GeV. Searches in 10.7M Au+Au collision events at 200 GeV yield no significant signal. The Au+Au results neither confirm nor rule out the d+Au observation as a possible state.
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