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Lattice QCD study on nucleon-$\Omega_{\rm ccc}$ interaction at the physical point

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2026-03-10 v2

Abstract

We report the S-wave interactions between the nucleon (NN) and the triply charmed Omega baryon (Ωccc\Omega_{\mathrm{ccc}}) using (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD with a physical pion mass (mπ137.1m_\pi \simeq 137.1 MeV) on a lattice volume (8.1 fm)3\simeq (8.1~\mathrm{fm})^3. The charm quark is implemented with a relativistic heavy-quark action at its physical mass. Employing the time-dependent HAL QCD method, the NΩcccN-\Omega_{\mathrm{ccc}} potentials in the spin-1 (3S1^3\mathrm{S}_1) and spin-2 (5S2^5\mathrm{S}_2) channels are extracted. In both channels, overall attraction is found with the scattering parameters, a0=0.56(0.13)(0.03+0.26)a_0 = 0.56(0.13)\left(^{+0.26}_{-0.03}\right) fm and reff=1.60(0.05)(0.12+0.04)r_{\mathrm{eff}} = 1.60(0.05)\left(^{+0.04}_{-0.12}\right) fm for the 3S1^3\mathrm{S}_1 channel, and a0=0.38(0.12)(0.00+0.25)a_0 = 0.38(0.12)\left(^{+0.25}_{-0.00}\right) fm and reff=2.04(0.10)(0.22+0.03)r_{\mathrm{eff}} = 2.04(0.10)\left(^{+0.03}_{-0.22}\right) fm for the 5S2^5\mathrm{S}_2 channel, indicating the absence of a dibaryon bound state. The extracted potentials are further decomposed into spin-independent and spin-dependent components, which provides a useful handle to investigate the underlying interaction mechanism. The spin-independent potential is a dominant component and features a short-range attractive core and a long-range attractive tail, while the spin-dependent potential shows short-range attraction (repulsion) in the spin-1 (spin-2) channel. Qualitative comparisons with previous studies of the NN-J/ψJ/\psi and NΩsssN-\Omega_{\rm{sss}} systems at mπ146m_\pi \simeq 146 MeV are provided, emphasizing the role of heavy-hadron chromo-polarizability arising from soft-gluon exchange between the nucleon and flavor-singlet hadrons.

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@article{arxiv.2603.01566,
  title  = {Lattice QCD study on nucleon-$\Omega_{\rm ccc}$ interaction at the physical point},
  author = {Liang Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.01566},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, Baryon2025 proceeding