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New Evidence for Supernarrow Dibaryons Production in pd Interactions

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The analysis of new experimental data, obtained at the Proton Linear Accelerator of INR, with the aim to search for supernarrow dibaryons in the pdppX1pd\to ppX_1 and pdpdX2pd\to pdX_2 reactions is presented. Narrow peaks with an experimental width of 5 MeV at masses of 1904±2\pm 2, 1926±2\pm 2, and 1942±2\pm 2 MeV have been observed in missing mass MpX1M_{pX_1} spectra. In the missing mass MX1M_{X_1} spectra, the peaks at MX1=966±2M_{X_1}=966\pm 2, 986±2\pm 2, and 1003±2\pm 2 MeV have been found. The analysis of the data obtained leads to the conclusion that the observed peaks in MpX1M_{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 MX1M_{X_1} is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0006029,
  title  = {New Evidence for Supernarrow Dibaryons Production in pd Interactions},
  author = {L. V. Fil'kov and V. L. Kashevarov and E. S. Konobeevski and M. V. Mordovskoy and S. I. Potashev and V. A. Simonov and V. M. Skorkin and S. V. Zuev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0006029},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

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