corner
corner

Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 202001 (2007) [7 pages]

Observation of the Heavy Baryons Σb and Σb*

Download: PDF (251 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

T. Aaltonen et al. CDF Collaboration
Show All Authors/Affiliations

Received 26 June 2007; published 12 November 2007

We report an observation of new bottom baryons produced in pp̅ collisions at the Tevatron. Using 1.1  fb-1 of data collected by the CDF II detector, we observe four Λb0π± resonances in the fully reconstructed decay mode Λb0Λc+π-, where Λc+pK-π+. We interpret these states as the Σb(*)± baryons and measure the following masses: mΣb+=5807.8-2.2+2.0(stat.)±1.7(syst.)  MeV/c2, mΣb-=5815.2±1.0(stat.)±1.7(syst.)  MeV/c2, and m(Σb*)-m(Σb)=21.2-1.9+2.0(stat.)-0.3+0.4(syst.)  MeV/c2.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.202001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.202001
PACS:
14.20.Mr, 13.30.Eg