Spin 3/2 Penta-quarks in anisotropic lattice QCD

TL;DR

This study performs a high-precision lattice QCD calculation to measure the mass of the pentaquark Theta^+ in the J^P=3/2^{\pm} channel, finding no evidence of low-lying compact resonances below 2.1 GeV.

Contribution

First high-precision lattice QCD mass measurement of the J^P=3/2^{\\pm} pentaquark Theta^+ using anisotropic quenched lattice QCD with multiple interpolating fields.

Findings

Masses around 2.1-2.2 GeV for J^P=3/2^- channel

Masses around 2.4-2.6 GeV for J^P=3/2^+ channel

No low-lying compact 5Q resonance states below 2.1 GeV

Abstract

A high-precision mass measurement for the pentaquark (5Q) Theta^+ in J^P=3/2^{\pm} channel is performed in anisotropic quenched lattice QCD using a large number of gauge configurations as N_{conf}=1000. We employ the standard Wilson gauge action at beta=5.75 and the O(a) improved Wilson (clover) quark action with kappa=0.1210(0.0010)0.1240 on a 12^3 \times 96 lattice with the renormalized anisotropy as a_s/a_t = 4. The Rarita-Schwinger formalism is adopted for the interpolating fields. Several types of the interpolating fields with isospin I=0 are examined such as (a) the NK^*-type, (b) the (color-)twisted NK^*-type, (c) a diquark-type. The chiral extrapolation leads to only massive states, i.e., m_{5Q} \simeq 2.1-2.2 GeV in J^P=3/2^- channel, and m_{5Q} = 2.4-2.6 GeV in J^P=3/2^+ channel. The analysis with the hybrid boundary condition(HBC) is performed to investigate whether these states are compact 5Q resonances or not. No low-lying compact 5Q resonance states are found below 2.1GeV.