New Evidence for Supernarrow Dibaryons Production in pd Interactions

Fil'kov, L. V.; Kashevarov, V. L.; Konobeevski, E. S.; Mordovskoy, M. V.; Potashev, S. I.; Simonov, V. A.; Skorkin, V. M.; Zuev, S. V.

New Evidence for Supernarrow Dibaryons Production in pd Interactions

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The analysis of new experimental data, obtained at the Proton Linear Accelerator of INR, with the aim to search for supernarrow dibaryons in the $pd\to ppX_1$ and $pd\to pdX_2$ reactions is presented. Narrow peaks with an experimental width of 5 MeV at masses of 1904$\pm 2$, 1926$\pm 2$, and 1942$\pm 2$ MeV have been observed in missing mass $M_{pX_1}$ spectra. In the missing mass $M_{X_1}$ spectra, the peaks at $M_{X_1}=966\pm 2$, 986$\pm 2$, and 1003$\pm 2$ MeV have been found. The analysis of the data obtained leads to the conclusion that the observed peaks in $M_{pX_1}$ spectra are most likely supernarrow dibaryons, the decay of which into two nucleons is forbidden by the Pauli exclusion principle. An alternative interpretation of the spectra by assuming a decay of the supernarrow dibaryons in "exotic baryon states" with masses $M_{X_1}$ is discussed.
17 pages, 6 figures. Considerably expanded version accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. A; a discussion, 4 figures and several references have been added, the title has been changed