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Observation of a threshold cusp at the Λη threshold in the pK- mass spectrum with Λc →pK-π decays

SB Yang, K Tanida, JK Ahn, I Adachi, H Aihara, DM Asner, H Atmacan, V Aulchenko, T Aushev, R Ayad, V Babu, P Behera, K Belous, J Bennett, M Bessner, V Bhardwaj, B Bhuyan, D Bodrov, J Borah, A Bozek Show all

Physical Review D | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Published : 2023

Abstract

We observe a narrow peaking structure in the pK- invariant-mass spectrum near the Λη threshold. The peak is clearly seen in 1.5 million events of Λc+→pK-π+ decay using the 980 fb-1 data sample collected by the Belle detector at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e+e- collider. We try two approaches to explain this structure: as a new resonance and as a cusp at the Λη threshold. The best fit is obtained with a coherent sum of a Flatté function and a constant background amplitude with the reduced χ2 of 257/243 (p=0.25), while the fits to Breit-Wigner functions are unfavored by more than 7σ. The best fit explains the structure as a cusp at the Λη threshold, and the obtained parameters are consistent wi..

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This work, based on data collected using the Belle detector, which was operated until June 2010, was supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), and the Tau-Lepton Physics Research Center of Nagoya University; the Australian Research Council including Grants No. DP210101900, No. DP210102831, No. DE220100462, No. LE210100098, and No. LE230100085; Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (FWF) and FWF Austrian Science Fund No. P 31361-N36; National Key R&D Program of China under Contract No. 2022YFA1601903, National Natural Science Foundation of China and research Grants No. 11575017, No. 11761141009, No. 11705209, No. 11975076, No. 12135005, No. 12150004, No. 12161141008, and No. 12175041, and Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation Project ZR2022JQ02; the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic under Contract No. LTT17020; the Czech Science Foundation Grant No. 22-18469S; Horizon 2020 ERC Advanced Grant No. 884719 and ERC Starting Grant No. 947006 "InterLeptons" (European Union); the Carl Zeiss Foundation, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, the Excellence Cluster Universe, and the VolkswagenStiftung; the Department of Atomic Energy (Project Identification No. RTI 4002) and the Department of Science and Technology of India; the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy; National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea Grants No. 2016R1-D1A1B-02012900, No. 2018R1-A2B-3003643, No. 2018R1-A6A1A06024970, No. RS-2022-00197659, No. 2019R1-I1A3A01058933, No. 2021R1-A6A1A-03043957, No. 2021R1F1A-1060423, No. 2021R1-F1A-1064008, and No. 2022R1-A2C-1003993; Radiation Science Research Institute, Foreign Large-size Research Facility Application Supporting project, the Global Science Experimental Data Hub Center of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information and KREONET/GLORIAD; the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the National Science Center; the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Agreement 14.W03.31.0026, and the HSE University Basic Research Program, Moscow; University of Tabuk Research Grants No. S-1440-0321, No. S-0256-1438, and No. S-0280-1439 (Saudi Arabia); the Slovenian Research Agency Grants No. J1-9124 and No. P1-0135; Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Spain; the Swiss National Science Foundation; the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan; and the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. These acknowledgements are not to be interpreted as an endorsement of any statement made by any of our institutes, funding agencies, governments, or their representatives. We thank the KEKB group for the excellent operation of the accelerator; the KEK cryogenics group for the efficient operation of the solenoid; and the KEK computer group and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) computing group for strong computing support; and the National Institute of Informatics, and Science Information NETwork 6 (SINET6) for valuable network support. S. B. Yang and J. K. Ahn acknowledge the support provided by NRF Grant No. 2018R1A6A 3A01012138, No. 2018R1A5A1025563, No. 2019K1A3 A7A09034960, and No. 2021R1C1C2012925 and by the POSCO Science Fellowship of POSCO TJ Park Foundation. K. Tanida is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant No. 21H04478, and by the Reimei and Houga Research Programs of Japan Atomic Energy Agency.