Baryon-Baryon Interactions in the Flavor SU(3) Limit from Full QCD Simulations on the Lattice

TL;DR

This study uses full QCD lattice simulations to analyze baryon-baryon interactions in the flavor SU(3) limit, revealing flavor-spin dependent potentials and discussing implications for exotic states like the H-dibaryon.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed lattice QCD analysis of BB potentials in the flavor SU(3) limit with full dynamical quarks, highlighting flavor-spin dependence.

Findings

Strong repulsive core in flavor-octet, spin-singlet channel

Attractive core in flavor singlet channel

Discussion of H-dibaryon resonance possibility

Abstract

We investigate baryon-baryon (BB) interactions in the 3-flavor full QCD simulations with degenerate quark masses for all flavors. The BB potentials in the orbital S-wave are extracted from the Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave functions measured on the lattice. We observe strong flavor-spin dependences of the BB potentials at short distances. In particular, a strong repulsive core exists in the flavor-octet and spin-singlet channel (the 8_s representation), while an attractive core appears in the flavor singlet channel (the 1 representation). We discuss a relation of such flavor-spin dependence with the Pauli exclusion principle in the quark level. Possible existence of an H-dibaryon resonance above the Lambda-Lambda threshold is also discussed.