Search for pentaquark states in Z decays

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S. Schael · RWTH Aachen University

R. Barate · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

R. Brunelière · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

I. De Bonis · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

D. Décamp · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

C. Goy · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

S. Jézéquel

Abstract

Exotic hadrons made of five quarks (pentaquarks) are searched for in hadronic Z decays collected by the ALEPH detector at LEP. No significant signal is observed. At 95% C.L., upper limits are set on the production rates N of such particles and their charge-conjugate state per Z decay.

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Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

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Published in: Physics Letters B

Volume 599, Issue 1-2, pp. 1-16

DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2004.08.021

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Search for pentaquark states in Z decays

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