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Measurement of Energy-Dependent Pair-Production Cross Section and Electromagnetic Form Factors of a Charmed Baryon

We study the process e^{+}e^{-}→Λ_{c}^{+}Λ[over ¯]_{c}^{-} at twelve center-of-mass energies from 4.6119 to 4.9509 GeV using data samples collected by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider. The Born cross sections and effective form factors (|G_{eff}|) are determined with unprecedented precisio...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2023-11, Vol.131 (19), p.191901-191901, Article 191901
Main Authors: Ablikim, M., Achasov, M. N., Adlarson, P., Ai, X. C., Aliberti, R., Amoroso, A., An, M. R., An, Q., Bai, Y., Bakina, O., Balossino, I., Ban, Y., Batozskaya, V., Begzsuren, K., Berger, N., Berlowski, M., Bertani, M., Bettoni, D., Bianchi, F., Bianco, E., Bortone, A., Boyko, I., Briere, R. A., Brueggemann, A., Cai, H., Cai, X., Calcaterra, A., Cao, G. F., Cao, N., Cetin, S. A., Chang, J. F., Chang, T. T., Chang, W. L., Che, G. R., Chelkov, G., Chen, C., Chen, Chao, Chen, G., Chen, H. S., Chen, M. L., Chen, S. J., Chen, S. M., Chen, T., Chen, X. R., Chen, X. T., Chen, Y. B., Chen, Y. Q., Chen, Z. J., Cheng, W. S., Choi, S. K., Chu, X., Cibinetto, G., Coen, S. C., Cossio, F., Cui, J. J., Dai, H. L., Dai, J. P., Dbeyssi, A., de Boer, R. E., Dedovich, D., Deng, Z. Y., Denig, A., Denysenko, I., Destefanis, M., De Mori, F., Ding, B., Ding, X. X., Ding, Y., Dong, J., Dong, L. Y., Dong, M. Y., Dong, X., Du, M. C., Du, S. X., Duan, Z. H., Egorov, P., Fan, Y. H. Y., Fan, Y. L., Fang, J., Fang, S. S., Fang, W. X., Fang, Y., Farinelli, R., Fava, L., Feldbauer, F., Felici, G., Feng, C. Q., Feng, J. H., Fischer, K., Fritsch, M., Fritzsch, C., Fu, C. D., Fu, J. L., Fu, Y. W., Gao, H., Gao, Y. N., Gao, Yang, Garbolino, S., Garzia, I., Ge, P. T.
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Summary:We study the process e^{+}e^{-}→Λ_{c}^{+}Λ[over ¯]_{c}^{-} at twelve center-of-mass energies from 4.6119 to 4.9509 GeV using data samples collected by the BESIII detector at the BEPCII collider. The Born cross sections and effective form factors (|G_{eff}|) are determined with unprecedented precision after combining the single and double-tag methods based on the decay process Λ_{c}^{+}→pK^{-}π^{+}. Flat cross sections around 4.63 GeV are obtained and no indication of the resonant structure Y(4630), as reported by Belle, is found. In addition, no oscillatory behavior is discerned in the |G_{eff}| energy dependence of Λ_{c}^{+}, in contrast to what is seen for the proton and neutron cases. Analyzing the cross section together with the polar-angle distribution of the Λ_{c}^{+} baryon at each energy point, the moduli of electric and magnetic form factors (|G_{E}| and |G_{M}|) are extracted and separated. For the first time, the energy dependence of the form factor ratio |G_{E}/G_{M}| is observed, which can be well described by an oscillatory function.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.191901