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Lattice QCD study of $\pi\Sigma-\bar{K}N$ scattering and the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2025-10-17 v3 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

A lattice QCD computation of the coupled channel πΣKˉN\pi\Sigma-\bar{K}N scattering amplitudes in the Λ(1405)\Lambda(1405) region is detailed. Results are obtained using a single ensemble of gauge field configurations with Nf=2+1N_{\rm f} = 2+1 dynamical quark flavors and mπ200m_{\pi} \approx 200 MeV and mK487m_K\approx487 MeV. Hermitian correlation matrices using both single baryon and meson-baryon interpolating operators for a variety of different total momenta and irreducible representations are used. Several parametrizations of the two-channel scattering KK-matrix are utilized to obtain the scattering amplitudes from the finite-volume spectrum. The amplitudes, continued to the complex energy plane, exhibit a virtual bound state below the πΣ\pi\Sigma threshold and a resonance pole just below the KˉN\bar{K}N threshold.

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@article{arxiv.2307.13471,
  title  = {Lattice QCD study of $\pi\Sigma-\bar{K}N$ scattering and the $\Lambda(1405)$ resonance},
  author = {John Bulava and Bárbara Cid-Mora and Andrew D. Hanlon and Ben Hörz and Daniel Mohler and Colin Morningstar and Joseph Moscoso and Amy Nicholson and Fernando Romero-López and Sarah Skinner and André Walker-Loud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.13471},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

18 pages, 11 figures, 14 tables. Final version accepted for publication in PRD with post-publication corrections