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Measurement of the HΛ3 lifetime in Au+Au collisions at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
- Adamczyk, L;
- Adams, JR;
- Adkins, JK;
- Agakishiev, G;
- Aggarwal, MM;
- Ahammed, Z;
- Ajitanand, NN;
- Alekseev, I;
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- Anderson, DM;
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- Bielcik, J;
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- Brandin, AV;
- Brown, D;
- Bryslawskyj, J;
- Bunzarov, I;
- Butterworth, J;
- Caines, H;
- de la Barca Sánchez, M Calderón;
- Campbell, JM;
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- Chaloupka, P;
- Chang, Z;
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- Chatterjee, A;
- Chattopadhyay, S;
- Chen, X;
- Chen, X;
- Chen, JH;
- Cheng, J;
- Cherney, M;
- Christie, W;
- Contin, G;
- Crawford, HJ;
- Das, S;
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- Ke, HW;
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- Nasim;
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- Tribedy, P;
- Tripathy, SK;
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- Tsai, OD;
- Ullrich, T;
- Underwood, DG;
- Upsal, I;
- Van Buren, G;
- van Nieuwenhuizen, G;
- Vasiliev, AN;
- Videbæk, F;
- Vokal, S;
- Voloshin, SA;
- Vossen, A;
- Wang, G;
- Wang, Y;
- Wang, F;
- Wang, Y;
- Webb, G;
- Webb, JC;
- Wen, L;
- Westfall, GD;
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- Wissink, SW;
- Witt, R;
- Wu, Y;
- Xiao, ZG;
- Xie, G;
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- Xu, J;
- Xu, QH;
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- Yang, S;
- Yang, Y;
- Yang, C;
- Yang, Q;
- Ye, Z;
- Ye, Z;
- Yi, L;
- Yip, K;
- Yoo, I-K;
- Yu, N;
- Zbroszczyk, H;
- Zha, W;
- Zhang, Z;
- Zhang, J;
- Zhang, S;
- Zhang, S;
- Zhang, J;
- Zhang, Y;
- Zhang, XP;
- Zhang, JB;
- Zhao, J;
- Zhong, C;
- Zhou, L;
- Zhou, C;
- Zhu, X;
- Zhu, Z;
- Zyzak, M
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https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevc.97.054909Abstract
An improved measurement of the HΛ3 lifetime is presented. In this paper, the mesonic decay modes HΛ3→He3 + π- and HΛ3→d+p+π- are used to reconstruct the HΛ3 from Au+Au collision data collected by the STAR collaboration at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). A minimum χ2 estimation is used to determine the lifetime of τ=142-21+24(stat.)±29(syst.) ps. This lifetime is about 50% shorter than the lifetime τ=263±2 ps of a free Λ, indicating strong hyperon-nucleon interaction in the hypernucleus system. The branching ratios of the mesonic decay channels are also determined to satisfy B.R.(He3+π-)/(B.R.(He3+π-)+B.R.(d+p+π-))=0.32±0.05(stat.)±0.08(syst.). Our ratio result favors the assignment J(HΛ3)=12 over J(HΛ3)=32. These measurements will help to constrain models of hyperon-baryon interactions.
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