2004/05/25 by P. Bicudo, Bicudo, P.
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ph/0405254
4 pages, uses enclosed moriond.sty, 1 Figure and 1 Table; talk at the XXXIXth Rencontres de Moriond: QCD and High Energy Hadronic Interactions, La Thuile, March 28th-April 4th 2004, to appear in the proceedings
arxiv created 2004/05/25 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
We study the Theta+(1540) discovered at SPring-8. We apply Quark Model techniques, that explain with success the repulsive hard core of nucleon-nucleon and kaon-nucleon exotic scattering, and the short range attraction present in pion-nucleon and pion-pion non-exotic scattering. We find a K-N repulsion which excludes the Theta+ as a K-N s-wave pentaquark. We explore the Theta+ as a crypto-heptaquark, equivalent to a K-pi-N borromean boundstate, with positive parity and total isospin I=0. The attraction is provided by the pion-nucleon and pion-kaon interactions. The other candidates to pentaquarks Xi--(1860), observed at NA49, and D*-p(3100), observed at H1, are also studied as linear molecular heptaquarks.