Study of inclusive strange-baryon production and search for pentaquarks in two-photon collisions at LEP

• Published in: The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 395 - 410
• Main Authors: Achard, P., Adriani, O., Aguilar-Benitez, M., Alcaraz, J., Alemanni, G., Allaby, J., Aloisio, A., Alviggi, M.G., Anderhub, H., Andreev, V.P., Anselmo, F., Arefiev, A., Azemoon, T., Aziz, T., Bagnaia, P., Bajo, A., Baksay, G., Baksay, L., Baldew, S.V., Banerjee, S., Barczyk, A., Barillère, R., Bartalini, P., Basile, M., Batalova, N., Battiston, R., Bay, A., Becattini, F., Becker, U., Behner, F., Bellucci, L., Berbeco, R., Berdugo, J., Berges, P., Bertucci, B., Betev, B.L., Biasini, M., Biglietti, M., Biland, A., Blaising, J.J., Blyth, S.C., Bobbink, G.J., Böhm, A., Boldizsar, L., Borgia, B., Bottai, S., Bourilkov, D., Bourquin, M., Braccini, S., Branson, J.G., Brochu, F., Burger, J.D., Burger, W.J., Cai, X.D., Capell, M., Cara Romeo, G., Carlino, G., Cartacci, A., Casaus, J., Cavallari, F., Cavallo, N., Cecchi, C., Cerrada, M., Chamizo, M., Chang, Y.H., Chemarin, M., Chen, A., Chen, G., Chen, G.M., Chen, H.F., Chen, H.S., Chiefari, G., Cifarelli, L., Cindolo, F., Clare, I., Clare, R., Coignet, G., Colino, N., Costantini, S., de la Cruz, B., Cucciarelli, S., de Asmundis, R., Déglon, P., Debreczeni, J., Degré, A., Dehmelt, K., Deiters, K., della Volpe, D., Delmeire, E., Denes, P., DeNotaristefani, F., De Salvo, A., Diemoz, M., Dierckxsens, M., Dionisi, C., Dittmar, M., Doria, A., Dova, M.T., Duchesneau, D., Duda, M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Springer Nature B.V 01.01.2007; Springer Verlag (Germany)
• Subjects: Baryons; Collisions; Computer simulation; High Energy Physics - Experiment; Photons; Physics; Transverse momentum
• ISSN: 1434-6044; 1434-6052
• DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0140-3

Measurements of inclusive production of the Λ, Ξ- and Ξ*(1530) baryons in two-photon collisions with the L3 detector at LEP are presented. The inclusive differential cross sections for Λ and Ξ- are measured as a function of the baryon transverse momentum, pt, and pseudo-rapidity, η. The mean number of Λ, Ξ- and Ξ*(1530) baryons per hadronic two-photon event is determined in the kinematic range 0.4 GeV<pt<2.5 GeV, |η|<1.2. Overall agreement with the theoretical models and Monte Carlo predictions is observed. A search for inclusive production of the pentaquark θ+(1540) in two-photon collisions through the decay θ+→pK0S is also presented. No evidence for production of this state is found.