Published October 1, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Lattice QCD determination of patterns of excited baryon states

  • 1. Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 (United States)
  • 2. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, Virginia 23606 (United States)
  • 3. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 (United States)
  • 4. Department of Physics, University of the Pacific, 3601 Pacific Avenue Stockton, California 95211 (United States)
  • 5. RIKEN BNL Research Center Building 510A, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000 (United States)
  • 6. Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 (United States)
  • 7. Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720 (United States)
  • 8. University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)

Description

Energies for excited isospin I=(1/2) and I=(3/2) states that include the nucleon and Δ families of baryons are computed using quenched, anisotropic lattices. Baryon interpolating field operators that are used include nonlocal operators that provide G2 irreducible representations of the octahedral group. The decomposition of spin (5/2) or higher spin states is realized for the first time in a lattice QCD calculation. We observe patterns of degenerate energies in the irreducible representations of the octahedral group that correspond to the subduction of the continuum spin (5/2) or higher. The overall pattern of low-lying excited states corresponds well to the pattern of physical states subduced to the irreducible representations of the octahedral group

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 074504-074504.14
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society