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Measurement of b-Baryons with the CDF II detector

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2010-04-22 v1

Abstract

We report the observation of new bottom baryon states. The most recent result is the observation of the baryon \Xi_b^- through the decay \Xi_b^- to J/\psi \Xi^-. The significance of the signal corresponds to 7.7 sigma and the \Xi_b^- mass is measured to be 5792.9 \pm 2.5(stat.) \pm 1.7(syst.) MeV/c^2. In addition we observe four resonances in the \Lambda_b^0 \pi^{\pm} spectra, consistent with the bottom baryons \Sigma_b^{(*)\pm}. All observations are in agreement with theoretical expectations.

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@article{arxiv.0710.0656,
  title  = {Measurement of b-Baryons with the CDF II detector},
  author = {Joachim Heuser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.0656},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

3 pages, 3 figures, conference proceedings to the 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics (Manchester, July 2007)