Origin of Dynamically Generated Baryon Rsonances

We study the origin of baryon resonances which are dynamically generated in the chiral unitary approach.We propose a natural renormalization scheme for the dynamical generation of resonances using the low energy chiral interaction and a general feature of the scattering theory.A deviation of a phenomenological scattering amplitude from the natural one is interpreted by an effective pole term interaction of genuine nature which can not be described by the meson-baryon dynamics,reminiscent of the CDD pole.Applying the present method to physical meson-baryon scatterings,we find that the ∧(1405) resonance is dominated by a meson-baryon component forming a (K)N-π∑ molecular-like structure,while the N(1535) resonance requires some pole contribution.     

Dynamically generated resonances from the vector octet-baryon decuplet interaction and their radiative decays into γ-baryon decuplet

The dynamically generated resonances from vector meson-baryon decuplet are studied using La-grangians of the hidden gauge theory for vector interactions. One shows that some of the generated states can be associated with some known baryon resonances in the PDG data, while others are predictions for new states. Furthermore, we calculate the radiative decay widths of these resonances into a photon and a baryon decuplet.     

Strange goings on in dense nucleonic matter

It has been suggested that charged pions form a Bose-Einstein condensate in baryonic matter at zero temperature and about twice nuclear density. In this letter it is shown that at somewhat higher densities one finds a charged kaon condensate, driven to a large extent by the “stgma term” interaction with baryons. Using the SU(3) × SU(3) chiral lagrangian to model meson-baryon interactions it is found that baryonic matter acquires a strangeness-per-baryon ratio approaching one at several times nuclear density. The relevance of kaon condensation as a route to strange matter and its role in neutron stars are discussed.     

Dynamically generated resonances from the vector octet-baryon decuplet interaction

We study the interaction of the octet of vector mesons with the decuplet of baryons using Lagrangians of the hidden gauge theory for vector interactions. The unitary amplitudes in coupled channels develop poles that can be associated with some known baryonic resonances, while there are predictions for new ones at the energy frontier of the experimental research. The work offers guidelines on how to search for these resonances.     

e+ e− production from pp reactions at BEVALAC energies

We have performed a detailed study of dilepton production from pp collisions including the subthreshold ϱ production via baryonic resonances (N(1520), N(1700)) in addition to the conventional dilepton sources as π⁰, η, ω and Δ Dalitz decays and direct decays of vector mesons (ϱ, ω). The role of baryonic resonances in ϱ production from nucleon-nucleon collisions is studied in comparison to the DLS data which are well described.     

Simultaneous photoproduction of eta and pi0 mesons on the proton

The analysis of the gammap-->etapi(0)p reaction has been performed using data from the GRAAL experiment. The total and differential cross sections and the beam asymmetry have been obtained from threshold up to 1.5 GeV of beam energy. The two resonances S11(1535) and Delta(1700) are expected to be excited in the intermediate states of this reaction. The results are used to test predictions based on the assumption that both resonances are dynamically generated from the meson-baryon interaction provided by chiral Lagrangians. The term involving the Delta(1700) excitation, followed by the decay into etaDelta(1232), is found to be dominant.     

Prediction of narrow N* and Λ* resonances with hidden charm above 4 GeV

The interaction between various charmed mesons and charmed baryons is studied within the framework of the coupled-channel unitary approach with the local hidden gauge formalism. Several meson-baryon dynamically generated narrow N* and Λ* resonances with hidden charm are predicted with mass above 4 GeV and width smaller than 100 MeV. The predicted new resonances definitely cannot be accommodated by quark models with three constituent quarks and can be looked for in the forthcoming PANDA/FAIR experiments.     

Meson-baryon s-wave resonances with strangeness -3

Starting from a consistent SU(6) extension of the Weinberg-Tomozawa (WT) meson-baryon chiral Lagrangian ( Phys. Rev. D 74, 034025 (2006)), we study the s-wave meson-baryon resonances in the strangeness S = - 3 and negative-parity sectors. Those resonances are generated by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation with the WT interaction used as kernel. The considered mesons are those of the 35-SU(6)-plet, which includes the pseudoscalar (PS) octet of pions and the vector (V) nonet of the rho-meson. For baryons we consider the 56-SU(6)-plet, made of the 1/2⁺ octet of the nucleon and the 3/2⁺ decuplet of the Delta. Quantum numbers I(J ^P) = 0(3/2^-) are suggested for the experimental resonances Ω ^*(2250)^- and Ω ^*(2380)^-. Among other, resonances with I = 1 are found, which minimal quark content is sssˉl', being s the strange quark and l, l' any of the the light up or down quarks. A clear signal for such a pentaquark would be a baryonic resonance with strangeness -3 and electric charge -2 or 0, in proton charge units. We suggest looking for K ^- Ξ ^- resonances with masses around 2100 and 2240MeV in the sector 1(1/2^-), and for π ^± Ω ^- and K ^- Ξ ^*- resonances with masses around 2260MeV in the sector 1(3/2^-).     

Charmed hadrons in nuclear medium

We study the properties of charmed hadrons in dense matter within a coupled-channel approach which accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies in a self-consistent manner. We analyze the behaviour in this dense environment of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances as well as the open-charm meson spectral functions. We discuss the implications of the in-medium properties of open-charm mesons on the DsO(2317) and the predicted X(3700) scalar resonances.     

The Ξ~* K and ?η Interaction Within a Chiral Unitary Approach

In this work we study the interaction of the coupled channels ?η and Ξ* ˉK within the chiral unitary approach.The systems under consideration have total isospins 0,strangeness S =-3,and spin 3/2.We study the s wave interaction which implies that the possible resonances generated in the system can have spin-parity JP= 3/2-.The unitary amplitudes in coupled channels develop poles that can be associated with some known baryonic resonances.We find there is a dynamically generated 3/2-? state with mass around 1800 Me V,which is in agreement with the predictions of the five-quark model.     

Chiral unitary approach to meson-meson and meson-baryon interactions and nuclear applications

We report on recent nonperturbative techniques that combine the information of chiral Lagrangians (with and without resonances) with unitarity in coupled channels and other requirements of the S-matrix theory of the strong interactions. As a result, the region of applicability of such techniques is much larger than the one of Chiral Perturbation Theory allowing one to study also resonance physics. Applications to meson-meson and meson-baryon scattering, as well as to problems where pairs of mesons of a meson and a baryon appear in the initial or final state are shown. Implications in several nuclear problems are also discussed.     

Should the coupling constants be mass dependent in the relativistic mean-field models?

Mass-dependent coupling constants are proposed for baryonic resonances in the relativistic mean-field model, according to the mass splitting of the SU (6) multiplet. With this choice the negative effective masses are avoided and the system remains nucleon dominated with moderate antidelta abundance.     

Excitations of the Roper resonances

We present a method that incorporates solutions of a broad class of quark models into the coupled-channel formalism for the K matrix. The method is applied to the calculation of the P11 and P33 scattering amplitudes in the region of the N(1440) and Δ(1600) resonances. Solving the Lippmann-Schwinger equation for the K matrix we find a strong enhancement of the bare quark-model meson-baryon coupling constants consistent with the values used in effective Lagrangian approaches.     

Partial wave analysis of ψ' →γχ_(c0) →γpK-Λ used for searching for baryon resonance

Abundant ψ' events have been collected at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider-Ⅱ (BEPCⅡ) that could undoubtedly provide us with a great opportunity to study the more attractive charmonium decays. As has been noticed before, in the process of J/ψ' decaying to the baryonic final states, pK-Λ, the evident Λ* and N* bands have been observed. Similarly, by using the product of χcJ from ψ' radiative decay, we may confirm this or find some extra new resonances. χc0's data samples will be more than χc1,2, taking into account the larger branching ratio of ψ' →γχc0. Here, we provide explicit partial wave analysis formulae for the very interesting channel ψ' →γχc0 →γpK-Λ.     

Spectral patterns in the nonstrange-baryon spectrum

We extract, from a quark model potential that reproduces the number and ordering of nonstrange baryonic resonances up to 2.3GeV, the quantum numbers for the dominant configurations in the ground and first nonradial excited states. From the pattern of quantum numbers we identify, from data, spectral regularities that allow us to predict the expected high-spin low-lying spectrum from 2.3 to 3.0GeV. N - Δ degeneracies and N parity doublets showing up can be interpreted in terms of a simple dynamics.     

η-production on the proton via electromagnetic and hadronic probes

The reactions π~-p→ηn and γp→ηp are investigated within a dynamical coupled-channels model of meson production reactions in the nucleon resonance region. The meson-baryon channels included are πN, ηN, π△, σN, and ρN. The direct η-photoproduction process is studied within a formalism based on a chiral constituent quark model approach, complemented with a one-gluon-exchange mechanism, to take into account the breakdown of the SU(6) O(3) symmetry. In the models search, the following known nucleon resonances are embodied: S_(11)(1535), S_(11)(1650), P_(11)(1440), P_(11)(1710), P_(13)(1720), D_(13)(1520), D_(13)(1700), D_(15)(1675), and F_(15)(1680). Data for the π~-p→ηn reaction from threshold up to a total center-of-mass energy of W ≈ 2 GeV are satisfactorily reproduced. For the photoproduction channel, two additional higher mass known resonances, P_(13)(1900) and F_(15)(2000), are also considered. However, reproducing the data for γp→ηp requires, within our approach, two new nucleon resonances, for which we extract mass and width.