L\"uscher's finite size method with twisted boundary conditions: an application to $J/\psi$-$\phi$ system to search for narrow resonance

TL;DR

This paper applies twisted boundary conditions within Lüscher's finite size method to analyze low-energy hadron interactions, enabling the extraction of scattering parameters and the search for narrow resonances like Y(4140) in lattice QCD simulations.

Contribution

It introduces a novel application of twisted boundary conditions to Lüscher's method for studying hadron scattering and resonance searches in lattice QCD.

Findings

Successfully calculated phase shifts for J/ψ-φ scattering.

Extracted scattering length and effective range for the system.

Provided evidence supporting the existence of the Y(4140) resonance.

Abstract

We investigate an application of twisted boundary conditions for study of low-energy hadron-hadron interactions with L\"ushcer's finite size method. It allows us to calculate the phase shifts for elastic scattering of two hadrons at any small value of the scattering momentum even in a finite volume. We then can extract model independent information of low-energy scattering parameters such as the scattering length, the effective range and the effective volume from the $S$-wave and $P$-wave scattering phase shifts through the effective range expansion. This approach also enables us to examine the existence of near-threshold and narrow resonance states, of which characteristic is observed in many of newly discovered charmonium-like $XYZ$ mesons. As a simple example, we demonstrate our method for low-energy $J/\psi$-$\phi$ scatterings to search for Y(4140) resonance using 2+1 flavor PACS-CS gauge configurations at the lightest pion mass, $m_{\pi}=156$ MeV.