PT Journal AU Pavon Valderrama, M Xie, JJ Nieves, J TI Are there three Xi (1950) states? SO Physical Review D JI Phys. Rev. D PY 2012 BP 017502 EP 5pp VL 85 IS 1 DI 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.017502 LA English AB Different experiments on hadron spectroscopy have long suspected the existence of several cascade states in the 1900-2000 MeV region. They are usually labeled under the common name of Xi (1950). As we argue here, there are also theoretical reasons supporting the idea of several Xi (1950) resonances. In particular, we propose the existence of three Xi (1950) states: one of these states would be part of a spinparity 1/2(-) decuplet and the other two probably would belong to the 5/2(+) and 5/2(-) octets. We also identify which decay channels are more appropriate for the detection of each of the previous states. ER