Heavy baryon production with an instanton interaction
Sang-In Shim, Atsushi Hosaka, Hyun-Chul Kim

TL;DR
This paper introduces a new two-quark reaction mechanism for strange and charmed baryon production, highlighting its ability to reveal baryon structure through calculated production rates.
Contribution
It proposes a novel two-quark process mechanism for baryon production, expanding understanding beyond previous one-quark models.
Findings
Large production rates for charmed baryons compared to strange baryons.
The mechanism excites both $ ho$ and $ ho$ modes in baryons.
Production rates reflect baryon wave function structures.
Abstract
We propose a new reaction mechanism for the study of strange and charmed baryon productions. In this mechanism we consider the correlation of two quarks in baryons, so it can be called the two-quark process. As in the previously studied one-quark process, we find large production rates for charmed baryons in comparison with strange baryons. Moreover, the new mechanism causes the excitation of both the mode and the mode. Using the wave functions for baryons from a quark model, we compute the production rates of various baryon states. We find that the production rates reflect the structure of the wave functions that imply the usefulness of the reactions for the study of baryon structures.
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Heavy baryon production with an instanton interaction
Sang-In Shim
Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan
Atsushi Hosaka
Research Center for Nuclear Physics (RCNP), Osaka University, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567-0047, Japan
Hyun-Chul Kim
Department of Physics, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
School of Physics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS),
Seoul 02455, Republic of Korea
Abstract
We propose a new reaction mechanism for the study of strange and charmed baryon productions. In this mechanism we consider the correlation of two quarks in baryons, so it can be called the two-quark process. As in the previously studied one-quark process, we find large production rates for charmed baryons in comparison with strange baryons. Moreover, the new mechanism causes the excitation of both the mode and the mode. Using the wave functions for baryons from a quark model, we compute the production rates of various baryon states. We find that the production rates reflect the structure of the wave functions that imply the usefulness of the reactions for the study of baryon structures.
††preprint: INHA-NTG-07/2019
I Introduction
Much part of the recent activities in hadron spectroscopy is devoted to the study of hadrons containing heavy quarks Hosaka:2016pey (and references therein). This is largely motivated by a series of observations of new heavy hadrons Choi:2003ue ; Acosta:2003zx ; Aubert:2004ns ; Abazov:2008qm ; Chatrchyan:2012ni ; Aaij:2012da ; Ablikim:2013mio ; Aaij:2015tga ; Aaij:2016phn ; Aaij:2016ymb ; Aaij:2016iza ; Aaij:2017nav ; Yelton:2017qxg ; Aaij:2019vzc , which have not been expected in the conventional naive quark model GellMann:1964nj ; Zweig:1964jf . In order to understand the production mechanism of these newly found heavy hadrons including the exotic ones, we need to consider more sophisticated quark-gluon dynamics inside a heavy hadron.
However, one clear virtue of the heavy-light quark systems is the presence of the heavy quarks. Since the heavy quark has a very large mass, the kinetic energies of the heavy quarks inside a heavy hadron are suppressed by the inverse of the heavy-quark mass, which makes the quark dynamics inside a heavy baryon simpler than that inside a light baryon. For example, in a conventional heavy baryon, two light quarks govern dynamics inside it and can be viewed as a diquark. On the other hand, the heavy quark can be regarded as an almost static color source and makes easily the structure of the heavy baryon decompose into the two excitation modes, namely, the so-called and modes. As shown in Fig. 1, the former mode describes the motion of the light diquark with respect to the heavy quark, and the latter explains relative motion between the two light quarks.
The essential features of these modes were discussed long time ago Copley:1979wj but the experimental data were then not enough to examine the idea quantitatively. As modern accelerators and detectors have been developed to perform the experiments with unprecedented precision, it is interesting to describe the production of heavy hadrons, based on these two modes. Moreove, since the E50 experiment at the J-PARC will soon measure the charmed baryon productions in the reaction and will yield important information on the structure of various charmed baryons e50 , it is of great importance to study theoretically the heavy-hadron reactions with these two different modes considered. Motivated by these discussions, we have started the study of the above production reactions Kim:2014qha ; Kim:2016cxr ; Kim:2016imp .
In the present work, we propose a new microscopic mechanism of hadronic production reactions and investigate how this new mechanism allows one to understand the baryon structures for the strangeness and charm productions.
Though the mass of the strange quark is much smaller than that of the charm quark, one can consider it effectively as a heavy object in some cases (but not always) Copley:1979wj ; Yoshida:2015tia . In Ref. Copley:1979wj the mass inversion of and was used to indicate that the strange quarks are heavier than the and quarks. In Ref. Yoshida:2015tia , in some cases it was shown that the mixing of the - modes is rather small even at the strange quark mass, which indicates that the strange quark is often effectively considered to be heavy. In a slightly different context it is also useful to know the cases of the Skyrme models where the bound-state approaches describe the properties of the SU(3) hyperons and heavy baryons successfully, the strange quark being regarded as an heavy object Callan:1985hy ; Callan:1987xt ; Ezoe:2016mkp ; Ezoe:2017dnp (see also a review Weigel:2008zz ). In this respect, we can still apply the method of the two modes to both the single-strange hyperons and singly heavy baryons. It is also useful to consider the strangeness sector, because strange hadrons can be produced at the J-PARC together charmed hadrons.
In this work, we develop a two-quark microscopic process of the baryon productions: two constituent quarks in a baryon are internally involved in a production reaction of mesons and baryons by pion beams, in addition to the one-quark process that was already studied in a previous work Kim:2014qha ; Kim:2016cxr ; Kim:2016imp . This new mechanism has a virture that one can look into the reaction mechanisms in a microscopic way. Note that one-quark and two-quark processes are similar to one-step and two-step processes, which are often considered in calculations of nuclear reactions. For example, when a deuteron or a helium target is scattered off by mesons or photons and then it is broken into new baryons, one has to take into account both the one-step and two-step processes YamagataSekihara:2012yv . Similarly, when the charmed hadrons are produced, the large-momentum transfer is inevitable, which indicates that both the one-quark and two-quark processes will contribute to the production of charmed hadrons. In particular, the two-quark process makes it possible to excite both and modes while it is possible to excite only modes in one-quark process.
To formulate and compute reaction matrix elements, we employ a nonrelativistic quark model (from now on we refer it simply the quark model) for baryon wave functions and a simple interaction which involves three quarks, one anti-quark in the projectile pion and two constituent quarks in the target proton. The baryon wave functions are constructed in the heavy-quark basis, where the total baryon spin is formed by those of light degrees of freedom (brown muck) and the heavy quark Nagahiro:2016nsx . In this way we can see clearly relations between baryon structures and production rates. This is indeed the main purpose of the present study. In contrast, to our best knowledge, the interaction that can be suitably used for charm or strangeness productions is not known. Therefore, we shall tentatively employ a three-quark interaction that is inspired by ’t Hooft for three flavors tHooft:1976 . This is an effective interaction induced by instanton dynamics Diakonov:1985eg ; Schafer:1996wv ; Diakonov:2002fq , and has been applied to the study of meson properties, for instance, NamKim ; Shim:2017wcq ; Shim:2018rwv and baryon spectrum Takeuchi:1990qj ; Takeuchi ; Takeuchi:2000wn ; Takeuchi:2000vi , and heavy hadrons Chernyshev:1994-1995 ; Musakhanov:2017gym . The instanton-induced interactions were also used phenomenologically in the description of the proton and antiproton annihilation Polyakov:1994ir . In the present study we employ that interaction for and for quarks. Though its applicability to production reactions in all details is not clear, we argue that the most important formula that we will derive in Eq. (34) shares common features of the two-quark process.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we briefly introduce the general formalism of how one can introduce the ’t Hooft-like interaction to describe microscopically the strange and charmed baryon productions. Then we derive a general formula for the two-quark process for the productions. In Section 3, we perform numerical calculations and show the results for forward-angle scattering. We will then discuss essential features of the production mechanism of the strange and charmed baryon productions. More general discussions related to observables such as the angular dependence of the cross sections will appear elsewhere. The final section is devoted to summary and conclusions.
II Formalism
Let us consider the reaction as shown in Fig. 2, where denotes a or meson with an anti-strange quark or an anti-charm quark and represents a heavy baryon with a strange or charm quark. Various kinematic variables are defined in Fig. 2. , , , and stand respectively for the momenta of the , the proton (), the meson, and the baryon.
In Fig. 3, we draw the quark-line representations for one-quark and two-quark processes on the left and right panels, respectively. In the one-quark process, an antiquark in the pion annihilates with one quark in the proton, and an or pair is created, while in the two-quark process, an antiquark in the pion interacts with two-quarks in the proton. From these pictures, we see that one-quark process excites only modes, while the two-quark process excites both and modes.
In Fig. 3, we also show momentum fractions carried by various quarks: the momenta of the initial and the final state baryons consist of the momenta of the three quarks inside the baryons, , , where and () are the quark momenta inside of the baryons and is the transferred momentum from the initial pion to the -th quark in the heavy baryon. In the two quark process the momentum transfer is shared by two quarks (2, 3), so that becomes the transferred momentum from the pion to the heavy baryon. Since the one-quark process has been studied previously Kim:2014qha ; Kim:2016cxr ; Kim:2016imp , we will focus on the two-quark process in the following subsections and the next sections.
II.1 Three-quark interaction
In this subsection, we discuss briefly several features of the ’t Hooft-like interaction, which will be useful for discussions of various production rates. An advantage of this interaction is that the reaction occurs at one place (single step), which makes the computation of matrix elements easy. The ’t Hooft-like interaction is for three quarks with three flavors, , which arises from the instanton dynamics of QCD tHooft:1976 ; Diakonov:1985eg ; Schafer:1996wv ; Diakonov:2002fq . In general, it is a nonlocal interaction in which the dynamical quark mass is momentum-dependent. Moreover, the quark-quark interaction considers only the light flavors, i.e. the up, down, and strange quarks. When one includes heavy quarks together with the light quarks, one has to derive the heavy-light quark interactions from the instanton vacuum again. Though there are some theoretical works on this heavy-light quark interactions from the instanton vacuum Chernyshev:1994-1995 ; Musakhanov:2017gym , its applicability is not sufficiently matured. Thus, in the present work, we will consider a simplified version of the ’t Hooft-like interaction including strange or charm quarks. Actually, it is also possible to transform this simplified one into a form of the heavy-light quark interaction similar to that of Chernyshev:1994-1995 ; Musakhanov:2017gym . We will also take a local form of the ’t Hooft-like interaction.
We start from the ’t Hooft-like six-quark interaction defined by tHooft:1976
[TABLE]
where is an interaction strength. In general,it is difficult to predict the absolute magnitudes of the reaction cross sections. Therefore, we treat the strength as a free parameter. On the other hand, we can discuss at least the ratios of various cross sections rather than their absolute values, so we will focus on the ratios in the present paper.
It is convenient to rewrite Eq. (4) by using the Fierz transformation to rearrange six quarks by observing the followings: The field annihilates the state in the incoming , the field creates the state in the produced meson, the fields annihilates the corresponding quarks in the proton, and the and fields create the corresponding ones in the strange baryon. Thus, the ’t Hooft-like interaction can be reexpressed as
[TABLE]
where and denote the left- and right-handed quark fields, and and are the SU(3) Gell-Mann matrices defined in color space. Since the mesons and baryons in the initial and the final states should be color singlets, the terms with in Eq. (8) do not contribute to the present reaction. Considering suitable leading-oder terms in the expansion, we need only the following terms
[TABLE]
In this expression, only the terms in the second line are relevant, because the meson matrix elements of in the first line vanish in the production reaction of a pseudoscalar meson due to parity conservation. For baryon matrix elements in the nonrelativistic quark model, we need expressions in terms of two component spinors. We have explicitly computed the term of Eq. (9) and found that the relevant operators are reduced to the identity operators. This can be verified by neglecting the Fermi motion of the quarks confined in baryons and for forward-angle scattering which is the dominant component of the reactions that we study in this paper. Therefore the operator that we need is written as
[TABLE]
where acts on the meson transition, , whereas on the baryon transition, , and , , , are two component spinors for the quarks in a baryon.
II.2 Baryon wave functions
As mentioned previously, we employ the baryon wave functions taken from the quark model. In the limit of infinitely heavy-quark mass (), the spin of the heavy quark is conserved, which leads to the conservation of the light-quark spin . It is known as the heavy-quark spin symmetry. Thus, we construct the baryon wave functions that are the simultaneous eigenstates of and to describe the baryon with one heavy (strange or charm) quark (for more explanation, we refer to Refs. Nagahiro:2016nsx ; Yoshida:2015tia ). In the quark model, a baryon wave function is given as a product of the orbital, spin, flavor and color parts as follows:
[TABLE]
Since the color part is always antisymmetric, the rest of the baryon wavefunction should be taken to be totally symmetric. Note that the interaction Lagrangian in Eq. (10) is given as a color singlet and a scalar in spin space.
Introducing the quark potential of the harmonic-oscillator type for confinement, we can decompose the orbital wavefunction into those of the center-of-mass (CM) and of internal coordinates , as
[TABLE]
where , , are related to , , , respectively, as
[TABLE]
Here the light quarks are labeled by 1 and 2, and the heavy quark by 3. Assuming isospin symmetry, we can express the quark masses as . The internal wavefunctions and are typically written as
[TABLE]
where denote the spherical harmonics and stand for the radial wavefunctions, which are given explicitly in Appendix A. The wavefunction represents the ground state with and for the ground state and excited states with quantum numbers , , . From now on, will be written compactly by , because we will consider only the excitations of in the present work. In a more realistic model containing the linear confining potential with the spin-spin interaction, the and modes are mixed each other. However, in Ref. Yoshida:2015tia it was shown that some baryon states are dominated by either the or the mode. Moreover, once we know the properties of and modes separately, the realistic cases of their mixing can be estimated. Because of these reasons in the present study we consider various matrix elements for the and modes separately.
The flavor (isospin) parts of the heavy baryons will be expressed by . For
[TABLE]
and for and
[TABLE]
where stands for a heavy quark.
Similarly, the spin part of the diquark can be expressed by ,
[TABLE]
[TABLE]
where designates the spin angular momentum of the diquark and corresponds to its -th component. The spin part of a heavy quark is denoted by .
By using these expressions, the baryon wavefunctions of and with total spin can be written as
[TABLE]
where represents angular momentum coupling of with Clebsh-Gordan coefficients included properly, and the color and CM parts of the wavefunctions are not included.
The SU(6) proton wavefunction with is given as
[TABLE]
where the spin and isospin wavefunctions, and are given respectively by
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
II.3 Transition amplitudes
The transition amplitude for the reaction is written as a factorized form
[TABLE]
where the baryon part is only the relevant one in the following discussion. In the two-quark process, the operator is a two-body operator and is written as
[TABLE]
where denote the quark numbers. Fixing the number of the heavy quark as 3, we have only two terms
[TABLE]
The operator has the flavor dependence as in Eq. (10), while the spin part becomes trivial because it is a scalar. Therefore, the baryon matrix element is given by
[TABLE]
Note that we have carried out the calculation in the coordinate space of three quarks . The two-quark operator acts on the -th and -th quarks. In the second equality, the delta function indicates that the interaction occurs at a single point. The spin-isospin factor arises from the Clebsch-Gordan coefficients in the computations of spin and flavor matrix elements. The factor 1/2 was introduced for convenience.
Using the identity
[TABLE]
one can rewrite the transition amplitude as
[TABLE]
where and with the effective momentum transfer defined as
[TABLE]
Having performed the integration over and , we obtain the matrix elements for the productions of the ground-state heavy baryon as
[TABLE]
where is defined by
[TABLE]
Here, is defined by
[TABLE]
where denotes the effective mass of a diquark, , , and given in Appendix A are the oscillator parameters for the modes, initial and final state modes, respectively. Except for the delta function, the matrix elements given in Eq. (36) depend on instead of because the recoil effect occurs by the difference between the masses of particles in initial and final states. In Eq. (37), we have seen that the Gaussian form factor \exp\big{(}-q^{2}_{\rm{eff}}/(4B^{2})\big{)} arises as a consequence of the use of the harmonic oscillator wave functions. In a realistic situation, a dipole type 1/\big{(}1+q^{2}_{\rm{eff}}/(4B^{2})\big{)} would be more preferable. Here in our discussions, however, we mostly treat the relative strengths of various transitions, where the form factors are almost canceled out and an actual form of the form factor does not affect the conclusion of the present work, as discussed below.
For the excited baryons in forward-angle scattering, the matrix elements are written as
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
where and are defined by
[TABLE]
In order to evaluate the production rates, we also need the meson matrix elements . This depends also on the properties of the mesons involved. However, considering the fact that the meson states in both the initial and final states are the same and assuming that the results depend mildly on meson form factors, we are able to ignore the matrix elements for the study of relative production rates of various baryons. Thus, the differential cross sections are computed by
[TABLE]
where denotes the transition amplitudes from the proton state () to various heavy-baryon states ( or ). In the CM frame, this can be written as
[TABLE]
where denotes the Mandelstam variable s=\big{(}\vec{p}_{\pi}+\vec{P}_{N}\big{)}^{2}=\big{(}\vec{p}_{M}+\vec{P}_{Y}\big{)}^{2}.
We note that the main formula that we have derived, from Eq. (34) to Eq. (42), are for the ’t Hoot-liked interaction which is unity in spin space in the non-relativistic approximation, namely, in Eq. (32). These formulae still hold for other types of the interactions with the operator suitably changed. If it has spin dependence, its effect is included in the spin-isospin factor .
III Results and discussions
III.1 Kinematic conditions
We are now in a position to present the numerical results and discuss them. Since this is the first work on the two-quark process in the heavy-baryon productions, we will consider only the case of forward-angle scattering for simplicity. The angular dependence and other observables will be studied in future works. To demonstrate the production rates, we first fix the momentum of the pion at for strange baryons and for charmed baryons. These values of the momenta will provide already sufficient energies to create the or pair. In the two-quark process, the momentum transfer is shared by the heavy quark and the diquark in the heavy baryon, which may excite both and modes. This contrasts with the one-quark process where only one quark receives the momentum transfer and therefore possible excitations occurs only in the modes.
We need numerical values of baryon masses with proper assignment of the corresponding states to compute the cross sections. Actually, baryon masses in the quark model do not always agree with the experimental data. For example, the mass of can not be easily described by the quark model. So, we take the masses of baryons from the Particle Data Group when available Patrignani:2016xqp . Otherwise, they are taken from the values of the quark models Yoshida:2015tia . By using these masses, we compute various matrix elements for the transitions up to -wave excitations. Results are shown in Table 1, where we also list the masses of excited states, spin-isospin factors and relative magnitudes of differential cross sections defined in Eq. (45), which are normalized by that of the ground-state . and denote the strange and charmed baryons, respectively. stands for the brown muck spin, which is the sum of the intrinsic spin and the orbital angular momentum of a diquark. In the following subsections, we will discuss the results in Table 1 one by one.
III.2 Production rates of ground and excited states
We first discuss the difference between the production rates of the strange and charmed baryons. In Table 1, we list the results of the production rates for both the strange and charmed baryons. As shown clearly in Table 1, the ground strange baryons are more produced than the excited ones, whereas the production rates of the excited charmed baryons are comparable with those of the ground ones. In Ref. Kim:2014qha we see a similar tendency. This can be understood by the dependence of the transition amplitudes on the momentum transfer. Using the wavefunctions in the basis of the harmonic oscillator, we are able to derive the matrix elements analytically with Gaussian form factors depending on , which are given in Eq. (36), (39) and (40). The momentum transfer is given as a function of the initial and final momenta, which depends on the total mass of the hadrons in the final states. The squared effective momentum transfer governs the productions of the heavy baryons. For example, the production rates of the lowest-lying heavy baryons decrease as increases. It implies that in the case of the productions of the ground-state heavy baryons, the Gaussian form factor, mainly governs the production mechanism. On the other hand, when it comes to the production rates of the excited states, dependence is much different from the case of the ground-state heavy baryons. In addition to the Gaussian form factor, there exist other factors that are proportional to the -th power of , where denotes the orbital angular momentum of the baryon in the final state. Thus, both the production rates for the and modes are enhanced up to the maximum point as increases and then start to fall off as further increases.
To understand this feature more explicitly, let us examine various transition amplitudes as functions of the momentum transfer . In the left panel of Fig. 4, we show the normalized amplitudes for the transitions to (ground state) and ( modes) baryons as functions of with Clebsh-Gordan coefficients removed 111These definitions are different from those in Ref. Kim:2014qha by and is also replaced by .,
[TABLE]
For the strangeness production, the typical momentum transfer is shown by the Region 1, where the ground state is the most abundantly produced, while for the charm production, as the Region 2 shows that the production rates of excited states become closer to that of the ground state.
III.3 Two- vs. one-quark processes
Here we briefly discuss the difference in the momentum dependences of transition amplitudes in the two-quark and one-quark processes. The amplitudes corresponding to Eq. (46)-(48) for the one-quark process is obtained by replacing the parameter by , where Kim:2014qha . Because of the exponential form factor , the relation implies that when the momentum transfer becomes large the two-quark process dominates over the one-quark process. Physically this is explained by the fact that the momentum transfer is shared by two quarks rather than by one quark. By comparing the two panels of Fig. 4, where the right panel is for the result of the one quark process, this feature is observed. For large momentum transfer 2.5 GeV, transition amplitudes becomes negligibly small in the right panel while they are still considerable in the left one. So, the two-quark process is dominant over the one-quark process as increases.
As listed in Table 1 and shown in Fig. 4, the production rates of various excited states of the two-quark process are not as large as of those of the one-quark process Kim:2014qha . A reason is in that the transition amplitudes for the two-quark process are more broadly distributed to both the and modes, while the one-quark process contributes mainly to the modes.
III.4 Transitions to and modes of
and baryons
In order to discuss the relations between production rates and the spin structures, we want to examine the production rates of and modes of and baryons. Table 2 reorganizes relevant differential cross sections taken from Table 1 and roughly estimated ratios in each group. Here, and denote respectively the spin of the light diquarks and the spin of the brown muck, which are just the coupled angular momentum of the diquark spin and its orbital angular momentum. If we scrutinize the results listed in Table 2, we can observe a systematics in - and -mode productions. Namely, the ratio of the baryons of the modes is and it is same as that of baryons of the modes, and that of the baryons of the modes which is coincides with that of baryons of the modes. Considering the values of and , we find that the excited baryons in the mode have the similar spin structures which have same quantum numbers, , , and , to those of the excited baryons in the mode. Similarly, the excited baryons in the mode correspond to the excited baryons in the mode by the spin content. The explicit forms of the wave functions can be found by using Eqs. (22) and (23). Thus, the identity of a baryon either in the mode or in the mode is determined by the study of production rates.
III.5 Restriction on the spin due to the instanton interaction
We want to mention that in the present work the spin flip of the quark does not occur during the process of the baryon productions, because the leading terms in the expansion of the ’t Hooft-like interaction are spin independent. This restricts the transition processes by certain conditions. As already shown in Table 1, the excited hyperons , and are not allowed to be produced off the proton. The absence of spin-flip interactions keeps the intrinsic spins of the quarks intact, which implies that the excitations of the orbital angular momenta cannot produce the above-mentioned excited hyperons. The intrinsic spins of the quarks inside a proton can be flipped only by the vector or tensor interactions in the course of the production processes. Thus, we need to consider the vector or tensor interactions that make the intrinsic spins flipped. We will leave it as a future work.
III.6 Production rates of ’s and ’s
There is yet another interesting point in the present results: we find that the ground-state baryons are in general produced more abundantly than the corresponding ones. As shown in Table 1, we have obtained the ratio of to is around , while the previous study Kim:2014qha , in which the one-quark process was only taken into account for the productions of the heavy baryons and vector mesons, yielded the results opposite to the present one, i.e. the corresponding ratio turns out around .
These ratios reflect the spin and isospin structures of the reaction mechanism due to the relevant operators and wave functions. In this regard, it is interesting to observe that the ratio holds also for the transitions to excited states; the sums of the transitions to the modes of ’s and ’s, and those of the modes of the ’s and ’s. Note that the available experimental data show that the ratio between the and productions is given around Crennell:1972km . It implies that both the one-quark and two-quark processes should be taken into account to describe the existing data of and . The relative strength of one-quark and two-quark processes may be determined by an additional study of the one-quark process for the productions of heavy baryons and pseudoscalar mesons or it is also possible by that of the two-quark process for heavy baryons and vector mesons with the previous study Kim:2014qha as well. It will be possible to carry out more detailed studies, when features of different reaction mechanisms will be understood better.
IV Summary and conclusions
In the present work, we aim at investigating the productions of strange and charmed baryons, including both the one-quark and two-quark processes. While the one-quark process was already considered previously, the two-quark process was proposed in this work. By the two-quark process, we mean that the two quarks inside a baryon undergo the interaction with a quark inside a meson beam, so that a strange or charmed baryon is produced. Thus, we need to introduce the three-quark interaction involving both the light and heavy quarks. In order to realize this three-quark interaction, we introduced a ’t Hooft-like interaction arising from the instanton vacuum. The six-quark operators in the ’t Hooft-like interaction were decomposed into the quark fields for the mesons and those for the baryons. To make the investigation simpler, we construct the baryon wave functions based on the nonrelativistic quark model with the confining potential of the harmonic-oscillator type. The excitations of the produced baryons consist of the two modes, i.e. the mode and the mode. As already shown in previous works, the one-quark process excites only the mode. However, the two-quark process does both the and modes. Thus, the two-quark process allows one to scrutinize the production mechanism of the excited charmed baryons in a more microscopic way. In particular, when the momentum transfer becomes large, the two-quark process will come into more important play. However, since introducing three-quark interactions involve additional ambiguity from unknown parameters, we mainly focussed on the ratios of the production cross sections between the strange and charmed baryons in the present work.
The main results are summarized as follows:
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The excited states are more produced for the charmed baryons than for the strange baryons (hyperons), which was also found in the previous work. This can be understood by examining the dependence of the transition amplitudes on the momentum transfer. The amplitudes show the additional dependence on the momentum transfer, which arises from the higher orbital angular momentum.
- •
The two-quark processes excite not only the modes but also the modes, which is distinguished from the one-quark processes.
- •
The production rates reflect the spin structure of baryons. For instance, the relative production rates of -mode ’s are similar to those of -mode ’s, because they have similar spin structures. These relations can be used for the identification of newly found baryons with unknown spin structure.
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For the ground-state heavy baryons, ’s are more produced than ’s. The one-quark processes exaggerate the relative production rates of the ’s in comparison with ’s, since the observed ground-state production rates are about half of those of the hyperons. It implies that both the one-quark and two-quark processes come into play to describe the production mechanism of the hyperons. Thus, the two-quark processes should be considered as much as the one-quark processes.
In the present work, we study the productions of the strange and charmed baryons in a qualitative manner. To investigate the production mechanisms of those baryons, we have to investigate the following issues.
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The instanton-induced interactions provide scalar-type interaction in the leading order of expansion. However, the inclusion of the corrections is inevitable to describe the spin-flipped processes. Moreover, it is of great importance to introduce vector or tensor interactions for the baryon production in high-energy processes, as the Regge theories already implied.
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The present study was mainly focussed on the forward angle productions. We need to cover the whole angle to investigate the productions of strange and charmed baryons in a more quantitative way.
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The study of the baryon productions aim eventually at extracting information the structures of the baryons concerned. Thus, it is of great interest to implement microscopically the effects of the diquark and multi-quark structure in the description of the baryon productions.
All these issues mentioned above will be discussed in forthcoming works.
Acknowledgments
We thank H. Noumi and K. Shirotori for useful discussions about experimental situations. This work is supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grants No. JP17K05441 (C) and by Scientific Research on Innovative Areas No. 18H05407. The work of S.-I. S is supported by Rotary Yoneyama Memorial Foundation. The work of H.-Ch. K is supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MIST) (No. 2018R1A5A1025563 and No. NRF-2018R1A2B2001752).
Appendix A Radial part baryon wave functions
The radial part of baryon wave fuctions are given with the wave functions of 3D harmonic oscillators as following,
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where the oscillator parametor is given as
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for the -mode wave functions of baryons and
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for the -mode wave functions of the inital and final state baryons, respectively. Here, is the spring constant between quarks.
Appendix B Integrations with Gaussian integrals
To find the final expressions of Eq.(37), (41) and (41), we use the Gaussian integrals. Some parts of the derivations for and are given as following.
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Here, the following formulae of the integrals have been used for integrating over , and .
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