Pentaquark decay width in QCD sum rules F.S. Navarra, M. Nielsen and R.R da Silva University of São Paulo, USP Brazil ( decay width) hep-ph/ ( mass) Phys. Lett. B578 (2004) 323 ( mass) Phys. Lett. B602 (2004) 185 LC 2005 CAIRNS Introduction Pentaquark mass decay width Conclusions
Something new in Hadron Physics: + (1540 MeV) july/2003 -- (1860 MeV) september/2003 c (3099 MeV) april/2004 Exotic baryons: can not be three-quark states contain an antiquark ! Introduction may/2005 vanishing...
No peak ! Resonance in the s channel peak in the cross section K + d scattering: Sibirtsev et al., PLB 599 (2004) 230 decay width MeV Extremely narrow !
Meson-baryon molecules? n K+K+ Pentaquark structure Five-quark bags? Strottman, PRD 20 (1979) 748
Topological solitons? Diakonov, Petrov, Poliakov ZP A359 (1997) 305 “Diamonds”? (non-planar flux tubes) Song and Zhu, MPL A 19(2004)2791
Triquark-Diquark? Karliner and Lipkin PLB 575 (2003) 249 Diquark-Diquark-Antiquark? Jaffe and Wilczek, PRL 91 (2003)
Identities between correlation functions written with hadron and quark – gluon degrees of freedom Method for calculations in the non - perturbative regime of QCD Two - point function: hadron masses Results are functions of the quark masses and vacuum expectation values of QCD operators : condensates QCD Sum Rules Three - point function: form factors and decay width
mass = current (interpolating field) How to combine quark fields in a DDA arrange ? hadronic fields composite quark fields -- : + :
2 scalar diquarks 2 pseudoscalar diquarks pseudoscalar diquark scalar diquark Matheus, Navarra, Nielsen, Rodrigues da Silva, PLB 578 (2004) 323 Sugiyama, Doi, Oka PLB 581 (2004) 167
Combination of 1 and 2 Insert in the correlation function Current contains contribution from the pole (particle) and from the continuum (resonances) Im = = spectral density S 0 = continuum threshold parameter
Operator product expansion (OPE)
Numerical inputs: (standard) Parameters: t s0s0 msms What is good sum rule? Borel stability Good OPE convergence Dominance of the pole contribution Reasonable value of S 0
m s =0.1 GeV t=1 s 0 =2.3 GeV MM m =1.87 ± 0.22 GeV
OPE perturbative dimension 4 dimension 6
pole continuum
Extremely narrow width: < 10 MeV or even < 1 MeV Mass excess of 100 MeV (no problem with phase space) decay width Possible reasons for a narrow width: Spatial configuration Color configuration Non-trivial string rearrangement Destructive interference between almost degenerate states Chiral symmetry...
K n Θ decay in QCDSR: Three-point function: (p) (p´) (q)
Phenomenological side L = (negative parity) L = (positive parity) (negative parity) (positive parity)
(negative parity) (positive parity) from QCD sum rules + continuum
Theoretical side (OPE side): currents correlator
OPE
color disconnected color connected
Continuum and pole-continuum transitions pole continuum
Continuum and pole-continuum transitions
(quark-hadron duality) Continuum and pole-continuum transitions
A B
Borel transform schemes I) II) III) (unstable sum rule)
Sum rules I A I B II A II B
Numerical evaluation of the sum rules From each sum rule and its derivative determine G and A ´s are known from the mass sum rules : G
I A Sum rules with color connected diagrams N = 0.5 GeV N = 0.4 GeV N = 0.6 GeV
II A N = 0.5 GeV N = 0.4 GeV N = 0.6 GeV
I B N = 0.5 GeV N = 0.4 GeV N = 0.6 GeV M´ = 1.0 GeV M = 1.5 GeV
II B N = 0.5 GeV N = 0.4 GeV N = 0.6 GeV M´ = 1.0 GeV M = 1.5 GeV
Results IA IIA IB IIB color connected all diagrams (negative parity) = 8.6 MeV implies that g nK = 0.4
Decay width Negative parity: = 650 MeV Color connected: = 37 MeV All diagrams:
Conclusions We have used QCDSR to study pentaquark properties It is possible to obtain reasonable values for the and masses However: the continuum contribution is large ! the OPE has irregular behavior ! The narrow width is more difficult to understand : With all diagrams we can not obtain a narrow width! With only the color connected diagrams we obtain a smaller width Negative parity strongly disfavored QCDSR for pentaquarks are not as satisfying as for other hadrons
Pentaquarks properties One unit of angular momentum mass Constituent quark mass: MeV mq = = 860 MeV Adition of two quarks MeV Non-trivial atraction mechanism