Published May 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Is the Θ+ a KπN bound state?

  • 1. Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, Institutos de Investigacion de Paterna, Aptd. 22085, 46071 Valencia (Spain)
  • 2. Departamento de Fisica Teorica I, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid (Spain)

Description

Following a recent suggestion that the Θ+ could be a KπN bound state we perform an investigation under the light of the meson-meson and meson-baryon dynamics provided by the chiral Lagrangians and using methods currently employed to dynamically generate meson and baryon resonances by means of unitary extensions of chiral perturbation theory. We consider two-body and three-body forces and examine the possibility of a bound state below the three-particle pion-kaon-nucleon and above the kaon-nucleon thresholds. Although we find indeed an attractive interaction in the case of isospin I=0 and spin-parity 1/2+, the interaction is too weak to bind the system. If we arbitrarily add to the physically motivated potential the needed strength to bind the system and with such strong attraction evaluate the decay width into KN, this turns out to be small. A discussion on further work in this direction is done

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Journal Title
Physical Review. C, Nuclear Physics
Journal Volume
69
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 055203-055203.7
ISSN
0556-2813
CODEN
PRVCAN

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(c) 2004 The American Physical Society