Θ⁺ pentaquark in the nuclear medium

2004/11/23 by M. J. Vicente Vacas, D. Cabrera, Vacas, M. J. Vicente +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Pentaquark #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Quark #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.nucl-th/0411095

Invited talk at the International Workshop on Strangeness Nuclear Physics,July 29-31, 2004,Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

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Abstract

We study the interaction of the Θ⁺ pentaquark with nuclear matter associated to the KN decay channels and to the two meson cloud. We find that the potential is attractive and could be strong enough to lead to the existence of Θ⁺ nuclear bound states.

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