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Can low-lying Roper states be explained as antidecuplet members?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

It is shown that the anomalously low-lying Roper states cannot be assigned as pentaquarks with the scalar diquark - scalar diquark - antiquark structure as suggested by Jaffe and Wilczek.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0309092,
  title  = {Can low-lying Roper states be explained as antidecuplet members?},
  author = {L. Ya. Glozman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0309092},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Will appear in Phys. Rev. Lett. as a comment on the paper by R. Jaffe and F. Wilczek, Phys. Rev. Lett., 91, 232003 (2003)