First Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Xi_cc^+

dc.creatorThe SELEX Collaboration
dc.creatorMattson, M.
dc.date2002-08-12
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:30:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:30:17Z
dc.descriptionWe observe a signal for the doubly charmed baryon Xi_cc^+ in the charged decay mode Xi_cc^+ --> Lambda_c^+ K- pi+ in data from SELEX, the charm hadro-production experiment at Fermilab. We observe an excess of 15.9 events over an expected background of 6.1 +/- 0.5 events, a statistical significance of 6.3sigma. The observed mass of this state is (3519 +/- 1) MeV/c^2. The Gaussian mass width of this state is 3MeV/c^2, consistent with resolution; its lifetime is less than 33fsec at 90% confidence.
dc.description5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0208014
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0208014
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.Lett.89:112001,2002
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.112001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/196969
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.titleFirst Observation of the Doubly Charmed Baryon Xi_cc^+
dc.typetext

Files

Collections