Φ PRODUCTION IN pp COLLISIONS

Abstract

The data for near-threshold cross section for the reaction pp → ppɸ published by the DISTO and ANKE Collaboration are analyzed in order to evaluate the OZI ratio at low energies by taking into account corrections from the kinematics and the final-state interaction. Combining these new data with the few measurements available at higher energies the limit for the OZI rule violation is evaluated and the possible contribution from a five-quark baryonic resonance coupled to the ɸp system is estimated.