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A search for a narrow baryonic state in the $pK^0_S$ and $bar{p}K^0_S$ system has been performed in $ep$ collisions at HERA with the ZEUS detector using an integrated luminosity of 358 pb$^{-1}$ taken in 2003-2007. The search was performed with deep inelastic scattering events at an $ep$ centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV for exchanged photon virtuality, $Q^2$, between 20 and 100 $rm{} GeV^{2}$. Contrary to evidence presented for such a state around 1.52 GeV in a previous ZEUS analysis using a sample of 121 pb$^{-1}$ taken in 1996-2000, no resonance peak was found in the $p(bar{p})K^0_S$ invariant-mass distribution in the range 1.45-1.7 GeV. Upper limits on the production cross section are set.
The process $gamma gamma to p bar{p} K^+ K^-$ and its intermediate processes are measured for the first time using a 980~fb$^{-1}$ data sample collected with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$ collider. The production of $p bar{p} K^+ K^-$ and a $Lambda(1520)^0~(bar{Lambda}(1520)^0)$ signal in the $pK^-$~($bar{p} K^+$) invariant mass spectrum are clearly observed. However, no evidence for an exotic baryon near 1540~MeV/$c^2$, denoted as $Theta(1540)^0$~($bar{Theta}~(1540)^0$) or $Theta(1540)^{++}$~($Theta(1540)^{--}$), is seen in the $p K^-$~($bar{p}K^+$) or $pK^+$~($bar{p} K^-$) invariant mass spectra. Cross sections for $gamma gamma to p bar{p} K^+ K^-$, $Lambda(1520)^0 bar{p} K^+ +c.c.$ and the products $sigma(gamma gamma to Theta(1540)^0 bar{p} K^+ +c.c.)BR(Theta(1540)^0 to p K^{-})$ and $sigma(gamma gamma to Theta(1540)^{++} bar{p} K^- +c.c.)BR(Theta(1540)^{++}to p K^{+})$ are measured. We also determine upper limits on the products of the $chi_{c0}$ and $chi_{c2}$ two-photon decay widths and their branching fractions to $p bar{p} K^+ K^-$ at the 90% credibility level.
The inclusive reaction $p A to pK^0_s + X$ was studied at IHEP accelerator with $70 GeV$ proton beam using SVD-2 detector. Two different samples of $K^0_s$, statistically independent and belonging to different phase space regions were used in the analyses and a narrow baryon resonance with the mass $M=1523pm 2(stat.)pm 3(syst.) MeV/c^2$ was observed in both samples of the data
In a search for signatures of physics processes beyond the Standard Model, various eeqq vector contact-interaction hypotheses have been tested using the high-Q^2, deep inelastic neutral-current e^+p scattering data collected with the ZEUS detector at HERA. The data correspond to an integrated luminosity of 47.7pb-1 of e^+p interactions at 300GeV center-of-mass energy. No significant evidence of a contact-interaction signal has been found. Limits at the 95% confidence level are set on the contact-interaction amplitudes. The effective mass scales Lambda corresponding to these limits range from 1.7TeV to 5TeV for the contact-interaction scenarios considered.
SVD-2 experiment data have been analyzed to search for an exotic baryon state, the $Theta^+$-baryon, in a $pK^0_s$ decay mode at $70 GeV/c$ on IHEP accelerator. The reaction $pA to pK^0_s+X$ with a limited multiplicity was used in the analysis. The $pK^0_s$ invariant mass spectrum shows a resonant structure with $M=1526pm3(stat.)pm 3(syst.) MeV/c^2$ and $Gamma < 24 MeV/c^2$. The statistical significance of this peak was estimated to be of $5.6 sigma$. The mass and width of the resonance is compatible with the recently reported $Theta^+$- baryon with positive strangeness which was predicted as an exotic pentaquark ($uuddbar{s}$) baryon state. The total cross section for $Theta^+$ production in pN-interactions for $X_Fge 0$ was estimated to be $(30div120) mu b$ and no essential deviation from A-dependence for inelastic events $(sim A^{0.7})$ was found.
We report a study of the decay $D^0 to K^0_S K^0_S$ using 921~fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at or near the $Upsilon(4S)$ and $Upsilon(5S)$ resonances with the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric energy $e^+e^-$ collider. The measured time-integrated $CP$ asymmetry is $ A_{CP}(D^0 to K^0_S K^0_S) = (-0.02 pm 1.53 pm 0.02 pm 0.17) %$, and the branching fraction is $mathcal{B} (D^{0}rightarrow K_{S}^{0}K_{S}^{0})$ = (1.321 $pm$ 0.023 $pm$ 0.036 $pm$ 0.044) $times$ 10$^{-4}$, where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is due to the normalization mode ($D^0 to K_S^0 pi^0$). These results are significantly more precise than previous measurements available for this mode. The $A_{CP}$ measurement is consistent with the standard model expectation.