The Charm Pentaquark and Kinematic Reflection.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - e x / 0 5 0 1 0 2 8 v 2 2 0 J a n 2 0 0 5 hep-ex/02 February 4, 2008 The Charm Pentaquark and Kinematic Reflection. M.Zavertyaev P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute,117924 Moscow B-333, Russia Abstract A simple example of the kinematic reflection in the D?p system at about 3.1 GeV/c 2 is given. 1 Introduction The anti-charm pentaquark θc = uuddc was observed by the H1 experiment at HERA [1] in the D ??p and D?+p modes in ep collision at √ s of 300 and 320 GeV. A narrow peak of 50 events was observed at about 3.1 GeV/c 2 with the width consistent with the detector resolution. The search for θc was performed by other experiments [2–7] with the negative result. But irrelevant to the result of other experiments the invariant mass spectrum ofD??p andD?+p presented by H1 experiment has the peak and the question is what might be the explanation for this particular case. 2 Monte Carlo simulation. The D?+ meson was observed via the decay chain D?+ → D0π+ → K?π+π+. For the pentaquark search one more negative particle (anti-proton in this case) is needed. Let us try for the moment calculate the invariant mass of three particles combination K?π+π+ - decay products of D?+ plus the same K? but assigning to it the mass of the proton. In simulation the D?+ momentum was uniformly distributed in the range of 20-30 GeV/c 2. The result is presented in Fig. 1 overlapped with the plot published by H1 experiment [1]. On the top frame the invariant mass of combinations with all “proton” momentum is shown, on the bottom only combinations with the “proton” momentum (and kaon as well) above 20 GeV/c are shown. The features of the simulated mass spectrum are very interesting. The maximum of the distribution miraculously coincides with the position of the experimental pentaquark peak at 3.1 GeV/c 2. The low edge of the distribution is a kinematic limit for the combination, while the tail at higher masses shrinks with the increase of the cut on the negative particle momentum,