2023/10/08 by Farrar, Glennys R., Wintergerst, Nico · 3 citations
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2310.05194
We derive and explicitly display the internal wave function of a color-, flavor- and spin- singlet dibaryon composed of uuddss quarks in a spatially symmetric state, in the approximation of exact SU(3) flavor symmetry. This wavefunction shows that the often-used superposition of Lambda Lambda, N Xi and Sigma Sigma baryons, relevant for di-baryon molecules, accounts for only 1/5 of a spatially symmetric six-quark color-flavor-spin-singlet state, with the remaining 4/5 consisting of products of color-octet baryons. Using the correct wavefunction has important implications for calculations of the mass of the lowest-lying flavor-singlet dibaryon, as we illustrate using the Cornell potential. We also provide a compact representation of the state in terms of creation operators, and comment on the impact of not using the optimal operator in lattice studies of this system.