Dalitz plot analysis of the decay D(+)--K(-)pi(+)pi(+) and indication of a low-mass scalar Kpi resonance

Autor: E M, Aitala, S, Amato, J C, Anjos, J A, Appel, D, Ashery, S, Banerjee, I, Bediaga, G, Blaylock, S B, Bracker, P R, Burchat, R A, Burnstein, T, Carter, H S, Carvalho, N K, Copty, L M, Cremaldi, C, Darling, K, Denisenko, S, Devmal, A, Fernandez, G F, Fox, P, Gagnon, C, Göbel, K, Gounder, A M, Halling, G, Herrera, G, Hurvits, C, James, P A, Kasper, S, Kwan, D C, Langs, J, Leslie, B, Lundberg, J, Magnin, A, Massafferri, S, MayTal-Beck, B, Meadows, J R T, de Mello Neto, D, Mihalcea, R H, Milburn, J M, de Miranda, A, Napier, A, Nguyen, A B, d'Oliveira, K, O'Shaughnessy, K C, Peng, L P, Perera, M V, Purohit, B, Quinn, S, Radeztsky, A, Rafatian, N W, Reay, J J, Reidy, A C, dos Reis, H A, Rubin, D A, Sanders, A K S, Santha, A F S, Santoro, A J, Schwartz, M, Sheaff, R A, Sidwell, A J, Slaughter, M D, Sokoloff, C J, Solano Salinas, N R, Stanton, R J, Stefanski, K, Stenson, D J, Summers, S, Takach, K, Thorne, A K, Tripathi, S, Watanabe, R, Weiss-Babai, J, Wiener, N, Witchey, E, Wolin, S M, Yang, D, Yi, S, Yoshida, R, Zaliznyak, C, Zhang
Rok vydání: 2002
Zdroj: Physical review letters. 89(12)
ISSN: 0031-9007
Popis: We study the Dalitz plot of the decay D(+)--K(-)pi(+)pi(+) with a sample of 15090 events from Fermilab experiment E791. Modeling the decay amplitude as the coherent sum of known Kpi resonances and a uniform nonresonant term, we do not obtain an acceptable fit. If we allow the mass and width of the K(*)(0)(1430) to float, we obtain values consistent with those from PDG but the chi(2) per degree of freedom of the fit is still unsatisfactory. A good fit is found when we allow for the presence of an additional scalar resonance, with mass 797+/-19+/-43 MeV/c(2) and width 410+/-43+/-87 MeV/c(2). The mass and width of the K(*)(0)(1430) become 1459+/-7+/-5 MeV/c(2) and 175+/-12+/-12 MeV/c(2), respectively. Our results provide new information on the scalar sector in hadron spectroscopy.
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