Published December 28, 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Measurement of the mass and lifetime of the charmed strange baryon Ξc+

  • 1. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik und Astrophysik, Muenchen (Germany, F.R.)
  • 2. European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 3. Rutherford Appleton Lab., Chilton (UK)
  • 4. Nationaal Inst. voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energiefysica (NIKHEF), Amsterdam (Netherlands). Sectie H
  • 5. Bristol Univ. (UK)
  • 6. Institute of Nuclear Physics, Krakow (Poland)
  • 7. Valencia Univ. (Spain)
  • 8. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Valencia (Spain). Inst. de Fisica Corpuscular
  • 9. Brunel Univ., Uxbridge (UK)

Description

We have observed six unambiguous decays of the charmed strange baryon Ξc+ (or charge conjugate Ξc-) in the collision of 230 GeV/c negative pions or kaons on a copper target at the CERN SPS using silicon microstrip detectors and charge-coupled devices for vertex reconstruction. Three of them have been reconstructed through the decay chain Ξc+→Ξ-π+π+, Ξ-→Λ0π-, Λ0→pπ- and the other three through the decay chain Ξc+→Σ+K-π+, Σ+→pπ0. We present our measurements of the mass, lifetime and production cross-section of the Ξc+, as well as of the branching ratio for the two decay modes. (orig.)

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Journal Title
Physics Letters, (Section) B
Journal Volume
233
Journal Issue
3/4
Series
Phys. Lett., B.
Journal Page Range
522-529
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBA

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ACCMOR Collaboration.