Two-flavor lattice QCD study of $\Lambda$(1405)

TL;DR

This study uses two-flavor lattice QCD to analyze low-lying $\Lambda$ baryons, revealing two negative-parity states near 1.6 GeV and clarifying their flavor compositions, but not observing the $\Lambda(1405)$.

Contribution

First lattice QCD analysis of $\Lambda$ baryons with detailed flavor decomposition and multiple lattice spacings, providing new insights into their structure.

Findings

Identified two negative-parity $\Lambda$ states near 1.6 GeV.

No evidence of $\Lambda(1405)$ in the studied parameters.

Lowest negative-parity state is flavor-singlet, first excited is flavor-octet.

Abstract

Low-lying $\Lambda$ baryons with spin 1/2 are analyzed in two-flavor unquenched lattice QCD. We construct $2 \times 2$ cross correlators from flavor SU(3) ``octet'' and ``singlet'' baryon operators, and diagonalize them so that we can extract two low-lying states for each parity. The two-flavor CP-PACS gauge configurations are employed, which are generated in the renormalization-group improved gauge action and the ${\mathcal O}(a)$-improved quark action. Simulation are performed at three different $\beta$'s, $\beta = 1.80$, 1.95 and 2.10, whose corresponding lattice spacings are $a = 0.2150$, 0.1555 and 0.1076 fm. For each cutoff, we adopt four different hopping parameters, ($\kappa_{\rm val}, \kappa_{\rm sea}$). The corresponding pion masses range about from 500 MeV to 1.1 GeV. Results indicate that there are two negative-parity $\Lambda$ states nearly degenerate at around 1.6 GeV, while no state as low as $\Lambda (1405)$ is observed. By decomposing the flavor components of each state, we find that the lowest (1st-excited) negative-parity state is dominated by flavor-singlet (flavor-octet) component.