Compositeness of dynamically generated states in a chiral unitary approach

TL;DR

This paper investigates the compositeness of dynamically generated states in a chiral unitary approach, revealing how energy dependence and cutoff parameters influence whether states are elementary or composite.

Contribution

It introduces a quantitative measure of compositeness using the field renormalization constant within the chiral unitary framework, clarifying the nature of generated states.

Findings

Energy-independent interactions produce purely composite bound states.

Energy-dependent interactions can include elementary components.

Purely composite states occur at threshold or with infinitely strong attraction.

Abstract

The structure of dynamically generated states in the chiral unitary approach is studied from a viewpoint of their compositeness. We analyze the properties of bound states, virtual states, and resonances in a single-channel chiral unitary approach, paying attention to the energy dependence of the chiral interaction. We define the compositeness of a bound state using the field renormalization constant which is given by the overlap of the bare state and the physical state in the nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, or by the residue of the bound state propagator in the relativistic field theory. The field renormalization constant enables one to define a normalized quantitative measure of compositeness of the bound state. Applying this scheme to the chiral unitary approach, we find that the bound state generated by the energy-independent interaction is always a purely composite particle, while the energy-dependent chiral interaction introduces the elementary component, depending on the value of the cutoff parameter. This feature agrees with the analysis of the effective interaction by changing the cutoff parameter. A purely composite bound state can be realized by the chiral interaction only when the bound state lies at the threshold or when the strength of the two-body attractive interaction is infinitely large. The natural renormalization scheme, introduced by the property of the loop function and the matching with the chiral low-energy theorem, is shown to generate a bound state which is dominated by the composite structure when the binding energy is small.