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Narrow width pentaquarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

A general study of pentaquarks built with four quarks in a L=1 state and an antiquark in S-wave shows that several of such states are forbidden by a selection rule, which holds in the limit of flavour symmetry, to decay into a baryon and a meson final state. We identify the most promising \bar{10} multiplet for the classification of the Theta^+ and Xi^{--} particles recently discovered with the prediction of a narrow width for both of them.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401083,
  title  = {Narrow width pentaquarks},
  author = {F. Buccella and P. Sorba},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401083},
  year   = {2009}
}

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11 pages