Search for Doubly-Charmed Baryons in CDF Data

ORAL

Abstract

Heavy flavor baryon spectroscopy provides insights into production and binding mechanisms of hadrons and the properties of QCD that are not very well understood. For doubly-charmed baryons, SELEX originally reported observations of $\Xi_{cc}^{+}$ and $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$, at masses of 3519 MeV/$c^2$ and 3620 MeV/$c^2$ respectively. LHCb reported the observation of $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$ with a mass of 3621 MeV/$c^2$. We report on the status of a search for doubly charmed baryons using 1.96 TeV $p\bar{p}$ data using the CDF detector at the Fermilab Tevatron. Using the displaced-track trigger, we perform this search using 5- and 6-charged track final states. Complementary modes are used for calibration and normalization.

Authors

  • Adithya Kuchibhotla

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign