Observation of the Doubly Strange b Baryon Ωb-

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作者
Abazov, V. M. [1 ]
Abbott, B. [84 ]
Abolins, M. [74 ]
Acharya, B. S. [35 ]
Adams, M. [60 ]
Adams, T. [58 ]
Aguilo, E. [7 ,8 ,9 ,10 ]
Ahsan, M. [68 ]
Alexeev, G. D. [1 ]
Alkhazov, G. [46 ]
Alton, A. [1 ,73 ]
Alverson, G. [72 ]
Alves, G. A. [3 ]
Anastasoaie, M. [40 ]
Ancu, L. S. [40 ]
Andeen, T. [62 ]
Andrieu, B. [21 ,22 ]
Anzelc, M. S. [62 ]
Aoki, M. [59 ]
Arnoud, Y. [18 ]
Arov, M. [69 ]
Arthaud, M. [23 ]
Askew, A. [58 ]
Asman, B. [47 ,48 ,49 ,50 ]
Assis Jesus, A. C. S. [4 ]
Atramentov, O. [58 ]
Avila, C. [12 ]
Badaud, F. [17 ]
Bagby, L. [59 ]
Baldin, B. [59 ]
Bandurin, D. V. [68 ]
Banerjee, P. [35 ]
Banerjee, S. [35 ]
Barberis, E. [72 ]
Barfuss, A. -F. [19 ]
Bargassa, P. [89 ]
Baringer, P. [67 ]
Barreto, J. [3 ]
Bartlett, J. F. [59 ]
Bassler, U. [23 ]
Bauer, D. [52 ]
Beale, S. [7 ,8 ,9 ,10 ]
Bean, A. [67 ]
Begalli, M. [4 ]
Begel, M. [82 ]
Belanger-Champagne, C. [47 ,48 ,49 ,50 ]
Bellantoni, L. [59 ]
Bellavance, A. [59 ]
Benitez, J. A. [74 ]
Beri, S. B. [33 ]
机构
[1] Joint Inst Nucl Res, Dubna, Russia
[2] Univ Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, DF, Argentina
[3] Ctr Brasileiro Pesquisas Fis, LAFEX, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[4] Univ Estado Rio de Janeiro, BR-20550011 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[5] Univ Fed ABC, Santo Andre, Brazil
[6] Univ Estadual Paulista, Inst Fis Teor, BR-01405 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[7] Univ Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
[8] Simon Fraser Univ, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada
[9] York Univ, Toronto, ON M3J 2R7, Canada
[10] McGill Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T5, Canada
[11] Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Peoples R China
[12] Univ Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
[13] Charles Univ Prague, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[14] Czech Tech Univ, CR-16635 Prague, Czech Republic
[15] Acad Sci Czech Republic, Inst Phys, Ctr Particle Phys, Prague, Czech Republic
[16] Univ San Francisco Quinto, Quito, Ecuador
[17] Univ Clermont Ferrand, CNRS, IN2P3, LPC, Clermont, France
[18] Univ Grenoble 1, CNRS, IN2P3, Inst Natl Polytech Grenoble,LPSC, Grenoble, France
[19] Aix Marseille Univ, CPPM, CNRS, IN2P3, Marseille, France
[20] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, LAL, IN2P3, F-91405 Orsay, France
[21] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, IN2P3, LPNHE, Paris, France
[22] Univ Paris 07, Paris, France
[23] CEA, Irfu, SPP, Saclay, France
[24] Univ Strasbourg 1, CNRS, IN2P3, IPHC, Strasbourg, France
[25] Univ Lyon 1, CNRS, IN2P3, IPNL, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[26] Univ Lyon, Lyon, France
[27] Rhein Westfal TH Aachen, Phys Inst A 3, Aachen, Germany
[28] Univ Bonn, Inst Phys, D-5300 Bonn, Germany
[29] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, Freiburg, Germany
[30] Univ Munich, Munich, Germany
[31] Johannes Gutenberg Univ Mainz, Inst Phys, D-6500 Mainz, Germany
[32] Univ Wuppertal, Fachbereich Phys, Wuppertal, Germany
[33] Panjab Univ, Chandigarh 160014, India
[34] Univ Delhi, Delhi 110007, India
[35] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Mumbai 400005, Maharashtra, India
[36] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
[37] Korea Univ, Korea Detector Lab, Seoul, South Korea
[38] Sungkyunkwan Univ, Suwon, South Korea
[39] CINVESTAV, Mexico City 14000, DF, Mexico
[40] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, NIKHEF H, NL-6525 ED Nijmegen, Netherlands
[41] Inst Theoret & Expt Phys, Moscow 117259, Russia
[42] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow, Russia
[43] NIKHEF H, FOM Inst, NL-1009 DB Amsterdam, Netherlands
[44] Univ Amsterdam, NIKHEF H, Amsterdam, Netherlands
[45] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino, Russia
[46] Petersburg Nucl Phys Inst, St Petersburg, Russia
[47] Stockholm Univ, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[48] Royal Inst Technol, Stockholm, Sweden
[49] Lund Univ, Lund, Sweden
[50] Uppsala Univ, Uppsala, Sweden
基金
巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 瑞典研究理事会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.232002
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We report the observation of the doubly strange b baryon Omega(-)(b) in the decay channel Omega(-)(b) -> J/psi Omega(-), with J/psi -> mu(+)mu(-) and Omega(-) -> Lambda K- -> (p pi(-))K-, in p (p) over bar collisions at root s = 1.96 TeV. Using approximately 1.3 fb(-1) of data collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider, we observe 17.8 +/- 4.9(stat) +/- 0.8(syst) Omega(-)(b) signal events at a mass of 6.165 +/- 0.010(stat) +/- 0.013(syst) GeV. The significance of the observed signal is 5.4 sigma, corresponding to a probability of 6.7 x 10(-8) of it arising from a background fluctuation.
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