Measurement of the spin of the omega(-) hyperon

Measurement of the spin of the omega(-) hyperon

A measurement of the spin of the Omega(-) hyperon produced through the exclusive process Xi(c)(0)-->Omega(-)K(+) is presented using a total integrated luminosity of 116 fb(-1) recorded with the BABAR detector at the e(+)e(-) asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. Under the assumption that the Xi(c)...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2006-09, Vol.97 (11), p.112001-112001, Article 112001
Hauptverfasser: Aubert, B, Barate, R, Bona, M, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Karyotakis, Y, Lees, J P, Poireau, V, Tisserand, V, Zghiche, A, Grauges, E, Palano, A, Chen, J C, Qi, N D, Rong, G, Wang, P, Zhu, Y S, Eigen, G, Ofte, I, Stugu, B, Abrams, G S, Battaglia, M, Brown, D N, Button-Shafer, J, Cahn, R N, Charles, E, Gill, M S, Groysman, Y, Jacobsen, R G, Kadyk, J A, Kerth, L T, Kolomensky, Yu G, Kukartsev, G, Lynch, G, Mir, L M, Oddone, P J, Orimoto, T J, Pripstein, M, Roe, N A, Ronan, M T, Wenzel, W A, Del Amo Sanchez, P, Barrett, M, Ford, K E, Harrison, T J, Hart, A J, Hawkes, C M, Morgan, S E, Watson, A T, Goetzen, K, Held, T, Koch, H, Lewandowski, B, Pelizaeus, M, Peters, K, Schroeder, T, Steinke, M, Boyd, J T, Burke, J P, Cottingham, W N, Walker, D, Cuhadar-Donszelmann, T, Fulsom, B G, Hearty, C, Knecht, N S, Mattison, T S, McKenna, J A, Khan, A, Kyberd, P, Saleem, M, Sherwood, D J, Teodorescu, L, Blinov, V E, Bukin, A D, Druzhinin, V P, Golubev, V B, Onuchin, A P, Serednyakov, S I, Skovpen, Yu I, Solodov, E P, Todyshev, K Yu, Best, D S, Bondioli, M, Bruinsma, M, Chao, M, Curry, S, Eschrich, I, Kirkby, D, Lankford, A J, Lund, P, Mandelkern, M, Mommsen, R K, Roethel, W, Stoker, D P, Abachi, S, Buchanan, C, Foulkes, S D, Gary, J W, Long, O, Shen, B C
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Sprache:eng
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Particle physics
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Zusammenfassung:A measurement of the spin of the Omega(-) hyperon produced through the exclusive process Xi(c)(0)-->Omega(-)K(+) is presented using a total integrated luminosity of 116 fb(-1) recorded with the BABAR detector at the e(+)e(-) asymmetric-energy B factory at SLAC. Under the assumption that the Xi(c)(0) has spin 1/2, the angular distribution of the Lambda from Omega(-)-->LambdaK(-) decay is inconsistent with all half-integer Omega(-) spin values other than 3/2. Lower statistics data for the process Omega(c)(0)-->Omega(-)pi(+) from a 230 fb(-1) sample are also found to be consistent with Omega(-) spin 3/2. If the Xi(c)(0) spin were 3/2, an Omega(-) spin of 5/2 could not be excluded.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.112001