1. Istituto di Fisica dell''Università Bari, Italy;2. INFN, Bari, Italy;3. Istituto di Fisica dell''Università Milan, Italy;4. INFN, Milan, Italy
Abstract:
Evidence for charmed baryon “elastic” production is found in a sample of 55 000 charged-current neutrino interactions in the bubble chamber Gargamelle exposed to the SPS wide-band neutrino beam. The product of the average cross section times the branching ratio into modes including a Λ0 or a 0p system is found to be α·B=(14.3 ± 7.4) × 10?40 cm2 for ν+n reactions and α · B<3.3×10?40 cm2 (90% CL) for ν+p reactions.