2005/08/12 by O. Kittel, Olaf Kittel, Kittel, Olaf +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0508150
18 pages
arxiv created 2005/08/12 · openalex publication_date 2005/08/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The splittings between the spin 1/2 and spin 3/2 iso-singlet baryons Lambdas(1405) and Lambdas(1520), and their charmed counterparts Lambdac(2593) and Lambdac(2625), have been a theoretical conundrum. Here we investigate the possibility that the QCD binding of color octets comprised of three quarks in a flavor singlet configuration is stronger than previously envisaged, allowing these states to be interpreted as hybrids consisting of three quarks plus a valence gluon (udsg) and (udcg). A fit of their mass separation allows the mass prediction of the strange and charmed flavor octet and decuplet hybrid baryons and the prediction of the mass separation of the beauty hybrids. Such hybrid states come in parity-doubled pairs with the even parity state lighter by about 300 MeV. Existing data accommodates either parity assignment for the observed states and the existence of the required unobserved partners at either higher or lower mass. We discuss difficulties with and strategies for observing the other states under the two cases. A corollary of the strong-binding-in-flavor-singlet-channel hypothesis is that the H-dibaryon may be very long lived or stable with mH ~< 2 GeV.