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Fully coupled-channel study of $K^-pp$ resonance in a chiral SU(3)-based $K^{bar}N$ potential

Nuclear Theory 2018-10-11 v1 Nuclear Experiment

Abstract

Nuclear system with antikaons, so-called kaonic nuclei, has been a longstanding issue in strange nuclear physics and hadron physics, because they might have exotic nature; In particular, they could be a doorway to the dense matter due to the strong attraction between antikaon and nucleon. Among kaonic nuclei, the three-body system composed of two protons and a single KK^- meson, KppK^-pp, is the most essential. In this article, we will report on the recent situation of KppK^-pp studies in both theoretical and experimental sides. Afterwards, we will explain our latest study of the KppK^-pp with a fully coupled-channel complex scaling method (Full ccCSM) using a chiral SU(3)-based KˉN\bar{K}N(-πY\pi Y) potential. In Full ccCSM, the KppK^-pp is completely treated as a resonant state of a KˉNN\bar{K}NN-πΣN\pi\Sigma N-πΛN\pi\Lambda N coupled-channel system. The energy dependence involved in the chiral potential is handled with a self-consistent calculation in which two extreme ansatzes are examined: field picture and particle picture. With our chiral SU(3)-based potential constrained by the precise data of kaonic hydrogen atom (SIDDHARTA experiment), the KppK^-pp resonance is obtained as a shallowly bound state measured from the KˉNN\bar{K}NN threshold with a narrow width, if the field picture is employed in the calculation: the binding energy is 142814-28 MeV and half value of the mesonic decay width are 8158-15 MeV. On the other hand, if the particle picture is employed, it is found that the binding energy could be as large as about 50 MeV, even though such a chiral potential is used. Based on these results of Full ccCSM calculation, we have discussed on the possibility for kaonic nuclei to form a dense matter and on the latest experimental result reported by J-PARC E15 collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.1809.09786,
  title  = {Fully coupled-channel study of $K^-pp$ resonance in a chiral SU(3)-based $K^{bar}N$ potential},
  author = {Akinobu Doté and Takashi Inoue and Takayuki Myo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.09786},
  year   = {2018}
}

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11 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, A plenary talk given at the 13th International Conference on Hypernuclear and Strange Particle Physics, June 24-29, 2018, Portsmouth, VA