Low Mass Exotic Baryons: Myth or Reality ?

Using mainly $\vec{p}$ p $\to$ p ${\pi^+}X$ and $\vec{p}$ p $\to$ p$_{f}$~p$_{s}$ X reactions, narrow baryonic structures were observed in the mass range 950$\le$ M $\le$ 1800 MeV.Comment: 9 pages, 9 figures, 1 table, revtex, to be published in Proceedings of the XVI International Baldin Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems, Dubna 10-15 june 200

Further evidence for narrow exotic low mass baryons

Although narrow low mass baryonic structures, observed mainly in SPES3 (Saturne) data, were not confirmed in recent experiments using lepton probes, their existence is confirmed in other data, where hadronic probes were used.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure

Search for Low Mass Exotic mesonic structures. Part II: attempts to understand the experimental results

Our previous paper, part I of the same study, shows the different experimental spectra used to conclude on the genuine existence of narrow, weakly excited mesonic structures, having masses below and a little above the pion (M=139.56 MeV) mass. This work \cite{previous} was instigated by the observation, in the $\Sigma^{+}$ disintegration: $\Sigma^{+}\to$pP$^{0}$, P$^{0}\to\mu^{-}\mu^{+}$ \cite{park}, of a narrow range of dimuon masses. The authors conclude on the existence of a neutral intermediate state P$_{0}$, with a mass M=214.3 MeV $\pm$ 0.5 MeV. We present here some attempts to understand the possible nature of the structures observed in part I.Comment: 3 pages, 4 figures. Follows 0710.1796. Both replace arXiv:0707.1261 [nucl-ex

Further Evidence of Narrow Baryonic Structures with Hadronic as Well as Leptonic Probes

Although extracted from several experiments using hadronic probes \cite{bor1}, narrow baryonic structures have been sometimes met with disbelief. New signatures are presented, which appear from already published data, obtained with hadronic probes as well as with leptonic probes. The authors of these results did not take into account the possibility to associate the discontinuities of their spectra with the topic of narrow baryonic low mass structures. The stability of the observed narrow structure masses, represents a confirmation of their genuine existence.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures. Contribution XVII International Seminar on High Energy Physics Problems, Relativistic Nuclear Physics and Quantum Chromodynamics, Dubna, (Russia) Sept. 27- Oct 2, 200

Exotic low mass narrow baryons extracted from charge exchange reactions

This paper aims to give further evidence for the existence of low mass exotic baryons. Narrow structures in baryonic missing mass or baryonic invariant mass were observed during the last twelve years. Since their evidence is still under debate, various data, measured with incident hadrons, by different collaborations, are reanalyzed to bring evidence on these narrow exotic baryonic resonances excited in charge-exchange reactions. These structures are clearly exotic as there is no room for them in the $qqq$ configurations: their width is smaller than the widths of "classical" baryonic resonances, moreover some of the masses lie below the pion threshold mass.Comment: 21 pages, 27 figure

Are the exotic mesons and baryons, recently observed, a signature of quark-hadron duality?

Narrow low mass exotic hadronic structures were recently observed in mesons, baryons and dibaryons. Narrow mesons, in the mass range 300$leq$M$leq$750 MeV were observed using the pp$ightarrow$ppX reaction. Narrow baryons in the mass range 1000$leq$M$leq$1400 MeV were observed using the pp$ightarrow$p$pi^+$X and dp$ightarrow$ppX reactions. The statistical significances of these structures vary up to 4.6 standard deviations (S.D.) for mesons and up to 16.9 S.D. for baryons. These exotic states are associated with precursor quark deconfinement

\pi N and \eta p deexcitation channels of the N^* and \Delta baryonic resonances between 1470 and 1680 MeV

Two reactions, pp->ppX and pp->p\pi^+X, are used to study the 1.47<M<1.68 GeV baryonic mass range. Three different final states are considered in the invariant masses: N^* or \Delta^+, p\pi^0, and p\eta. The last two channels are defined by software cuts applied to the missing mass of the first reaction. Several narrow structures are extracted with widths \sigma(\Gamma) varying between 3 and 9 MeV. Some structures are observed in one channel but not in others. Such nonobservation may be due either to the spectrometer momenta limits or to the physics (e.g. no such disintegration channel is allowed from the narrow state considered). We tentatively conclude that the broad Particle Data Group (PDG) baryonic resonances N(1520)D13, N(1535)S11, Delta(1600)P33, and N(1675)D15 are collective states built from several narrow and weakly excited resonances, each having a (much) smaller width than the one reported by PDG.Comment: 29 pages, plus 50 (.png) figures Will be published in a slightly reduced size in Phys. Rev.

Charge exchange reactions on baryons and exotic low-mass narrow baryons.

Narrow structures in baryonic missing mass or baryonic invariant mass were observed during the last ten years. Since their existence remains controversial, previously published data, measured with incident hadrons, are reanalyzed to add new pieces of information. This contribution gives further evidence to the existence of low mass exotic baryons, excited in charge-exchange reaction