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Evidence for a kaon-bound state K(-)pp produced in K(-) absorption reactions at rest |
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| Authors: | Agnello M Beer G Benussi L Bertani M Bianco S Botta E Bressani T Busso L Calvo D Camerini P Cerello P Dalena B De Mori F D'Erasmo G Di Santo D Fabbri F L Faso D Feliciello A Filippi A Filippini V Fiore E M Fujioka H Gianotti P Grion N Lucherini V Marcello S Maruta T Mirfakhrai N Morra O Nagae T Olin A Outa H Pace E Palomba M Pantaleo A Panzarasa A Paticchio V Piano S Pompili F Rui R Simonetti G So H Tomassini S Toyoda A Wheadon R Zenoni A;FINUDA Collaboration |
| Institution: | Dipartimento di Fisica del Politecnico di Torino, I-10129 Torino, Italy and INFN Sezione di Torino, I-10125 Torino, Italy. |
| Abstract: | We have searched for a deeply bound kaonic state by using the FINUDA spectrometer installed at the e(+)e(-) collider DAPhiNE. Almost monochromatic K(-)'s produced through the decay of phi(1020) mesons are used to observe K(-) absorption reactions stopped on very thin nuclear targets. Taking this unique advantage, we have succeeded to detect a kaon-bound state K(-)pp through its two-body decay into a Lambda hyperon and a proton. The binding energy and the decay width are determined from the invariant-mass distribution as 115(+6)(-5)(stat)(+3)(-4)(syst) MeV and 67(+14)(-11)(stat)(+2)(-3)(syst) MeV, respectively. |
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