Search for a Stable Six-Quark State at BABAR.
Journal
Physical review letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
Titre abrégé: Phys Rev Lett
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0401141
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 Feb 2019
22 Feb 2019
Historique:
revised:
24
01
2019
received:
14
11
2018
entrez:
9
3
2019
pubmed:
9
3
2019
medline:
9
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Recent investigations have suggested that the six-quark combination uuddss could be a deeply bound state (S) that has eluded detection so far, and a potential dark matter candidate. We report the first search for a stable, doubly strange six-quark state in ϒ→SΛ[over ¯]Λ[over ¯] decays based on a sample of 90×10^{6}ϒ(2S) and 110×10^{6}ϒ(3S) decays collected by the BABAR experiment. No signal is observed, and 90% confidence level limits on the combined ϒ(2S,3S)→SΛ[over ¯]Λ[over ¯] branching fraction in the range (1.2-1.4)×10^{-7} are derived for m_{S}<2.05 GeV. These bounds set stringent limits on the existence of such exotic particles.
Identifiants
pubmed: 30848619
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.072002
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng