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Present status on experimental search for pentaquarks

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-06-19 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

It has been ten years since the first report for a positive strangeness pentaquark-like baryon state. However the existence of the pentaquark state is still controversial. Some contradictions between the experiments are unsolved. In this paper we review the experimental search for the pentaquark candidates Θ+\Theta^+, Θ++\Theta^{++}, Ξ\Xi^{--}, Θc0\Theta_c^0 and NN^* in details. We review the experiments with positive results and compare the experiments with similar conditions but opposite results.

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@article{arxiv.1403.4455,
  title  = {Present status on experimental search for pentaquarks},
  author = {Tianbo Liu and Yajun Mao and Bo-Qiang Ma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.4455},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

20 latex pages, 2 figures, to appear in IJMPA as a review

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