Recent Results on Searches for Pentaquark States from STAR at RHIC.pdfVIP

February 8, 2008 21:38 WSPC/INSTRUCTION FILE huang-QCD05- Beijing International Journal of Modern Physics A c World Scientific Publishing Company 5 0 0 Recent Results on Searches for Pentaquark States from STAR at RHIC 2 p e Huan Zhong Huang S Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1547 0 huang@physics.ucla.edu 3 For the STAR Collaboration 1 v We present results on pentaquark searches from nuclear collisions at RHIC with the 7 STAR detector system. An intriguing peak has been observed in the invariant mass 3 distribution of pK ++pK − from 18.6 Million d+Au collision events at √sNN = 200 GeV. 0 The peak centers at a mass 1528 ± 2 ± 5 MeV/c2 and the FWHM ∼ 15 MeV/c2 limited 9 by detector responses. The statistical significance of the peak is 4.2σ. Such a state if 0 confirmed is manifestly exotic and implies a family of isospin one states. A weak signal 5 of less statistical significance (∼ 3σ) has been observed in 5.6M Au+Au collision events 0 at 62.4 GeV. Searches in 10.7M Au+Au collision events at 200 GeV yield no significant / x signal. The Au+Au results neither confirm nor rule out the d+Au observation as a e possible state. - l