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Application of a coupled-channel Complex Scaling Method with Feshbach projection to the $K^-pp$ system

Nuclear Theory 2015-04-15 v2 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Kaonic nuclei (nuclear system with anti-kaons) have been an interesting subject in hadron and strange nuclear physics, because the strong attraction between anti-kaon and nucleon might bring exotic properties to that system. In this article, we investigate KppK^-pp as a prototype of kaonic nuclei. Here, KppK^-pp is a three-body resonant state in the KˉNN\bar{K}NN-πYN\pi YN coupled channels. (YY=Λ\Lambda, Σ\Sigma) To treat resonant states in a coupled-channel system properly, we propose newly a coupled-channel complex scaling method combined with the Feshbach projection (ccCSM+Feshbach method). In this method, the Feshbach projection is realized with help of so-called the extended closure relation held in the complex scaling method, and a complicated coupled-channel problem is reduced to a simple single-channel problem which one can treat easily. First, we confirm that the ccCSM+Feshbach method completely reproduces results of a full coupled-channel calculation in case of two-body KˉN\bar{K}N-πY\pi Y system. We then proceed to study of three-body KˉNN\bar{K}NN-πYN\pi YN system, and successfully find solutions of the KppK^-pp resonance by imposing self-consistency for the complex KˉN\bar{K}N energy. Obtained binding energy of KppK^-pp is well converged around 27 MeV, with an energy-dependent KˉN\bar{K}N(-πY\pi Y) potential based on the chiral SU(3) theory, independently of ansatz for the self-consistency. This binding energy is small as ones reported in earlier studies based on chiral models. The decay width of KppK^-pp strongly depends on the ansatz. We calculate also the correlation density of NNNN and KˉN\bar{K}N pairs by using the obtained complex-scaled wave function of the KppK^-pp resonance. Effect of the repulsive core of NNNN potential and survival of Λ\Lambda^* resonance are confirmed.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1411.0348,
  title  = {Application of a coupled-channel Complex Scaling Method with Feshbach projection to the $K^-pp$ system},
  author = {Akinobu Doté and Takashi Inoue and Takayuki Myo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.0348},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

26 pages, 9 figures, to be published in Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys