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  • Egiyan, H; Langheinrich, J; Gothe, R W; Graham, L; Holtrop, M; H Lu; Mattione, P; Mutchler, G; Park, K; Smith, E S; Stepanyan, S; Zhao, Z W; Collaboration, CLAS

    arXiv.org, 09/2011
    Paper, Journal Article

    We searched for the Phi--(1860) pentaquark in the photoproduction process off the deuteron in the Xi- pi- decay channel using CLAS. The invariant mass spectrum of the Xi- pi- system does not indicate any statistically significant enhancement near the reported mass M = 1.860 GeV. The statistical analysis of the sideband-subtracted mass spectrum yields a 90% confidence level upper limit of 0.7 nb for the photoproduction cross section of Phi--(1860) with a consecutive decay into Xi- pi- in the photon energy range 4.5 GeV < Egamma < 5.5 GeV.