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Excited-state spectroscopy of triply-bottom baryons from lattice QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2012-06-27 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The spectrum of baryons containing three b quarks is calculated in nonperturbative QCD, using the lattice regularization. The energies of ten excited bbb states with J^P = 1/2^+, 3/2^+, 5/2^+, 7/2^+, 1/2^-, and 3/2^- are determined with high precision. A domain-wall action is used for the up-, down- and strange quarks, and the bottom quarks are implemented with NRQCD. The computations are done at lattice spacings of a \approx 0.11 fm and a \approx 0.08 fm, and the results demonstrate the improvement of rotational symmetry as a is reduced. A large lattice volume of (2.7 fm)^3 is used, and extrapolations of the bbb spectrum to realistic values of the light sea-quark masses are performed. All spin-dependent energy splittings are resolved with total uncertainties of order 1 MeV, and the dependence of these splittings on the couplings in the NRQCD action is analyzed.

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@article{arxiv.1202.1312,
  title  = {Excited-state spectroscopy of triply-bottom baryons from lattice QCD},
  author = {Stefan Meinel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1202.1312},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

26 pages, 15 figures; added uncertainty due to choice of fit range; accepted by PRD