Published August 1, 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Broken SU(3) antidecuplet for Θ+ and Ξ3/2

  • 1. Department of Physics and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 (United States)

Description

If the narrow exotic baryon resonances Θ+(1540) and Ξ3/2(1862) are members of the JP=(1/2)+ antidecuplet with N*(1710), the octet-antidecuplet mixing is required not only by the mass spectrum but also by the decay pattern of N*(1710). This casts doubt on the validity of the Θ+ mass prediction by the chiral soliton model. While all pieces of the existing experimental information point to a small octet-decuplet mixing, the magnitude of mixing required by the mass spectrum is not consistent with the value needed to account for the hadronic decay rates. The discrepancy is not resolved even after the large experimental uncertainty is taken into consideration. We fail to find an alternative SU(3) assignment even with a different spin-parity assignment. When we extend the analysis to mixing with a higher SU(3) multiplet, we find one experimentally testable scenario in the case of mixing with a 27-plet

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
70
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 036002-036002.9
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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