Hadron mass scaling near the s-wave threshold

TL;DR

This paper investigates how two-hadron thresholds influence hadron mass scaling near the s-wave threshold, revealing unique nonperturbative effects and the vanishing of the field renormalization constant at zero energy.

Contribution

It introduces a quantum mechanical model for hadron mass scaling near thresholds and demonstrates the distinct behavior of s-wave states compared to higher partial waves.

Findings

Scaling law holds for nonlocal potentials induced by bare states.

In p or higher waves, the scaling law continues across the threshold.

In s-wave, the leading scaling contribution is suppressed due to nonperturbative effects.

Abstract

The influence of a two-hadron threshold is studied for the hadron mass scaling with respect to some quantum chromodynamics parameters. A quantum mechanical model is introduced to describe the system with a one-body bare state coupled with a single elastic two-body scattering. The general behavior of the energy of the bound and resonance state near the two-body threshold for a local potential is derived from the expansion of the Jost function around the threshold. It is shown that the same scaling holds for the nonlocal potential induced by the coupling to a bare state. In p or higher partial waves, the scaling law of the stable bound state continues across the threshold describing the real part of the resonance energy. In contrast, the leading contribution of the scaling is forbidden by the nonperturbative dynamics near the s-wave threshold. As a consequence, the bound state energy is not continuously connected to the real part of the resonance energy. This universal behavior originates in the vanishing of the field renormalization constant of the zero-energy resonance in the s wave. A proof is given for the vanishing of the field renormalization constant, together with a detailed discussion.