Narrow Width of Penta-Quark Baryons in QCD String Theory
Abstract
Using the QCD string theory, we investigate the physical reason of the narrow width of penta-quark baryons in terms of the large gluonic-excitation energy. In the QCD string theory, the penta-quark baryon decays via a gluonic-excited state of a baryon and meson system, where a pair of Y-shaped junction and anti-junction is created. On the other hand, we find in lattice QCD that the lowest gluonic-excitation energy takes a large value of about 1 GeV. Therefore, in the QCD string theory, the decay of the penta-quark baryon near the threshold is considered as a quantum tunneling process via a highly-excited state (a gluonic-excited state), which leads to an extremely narrow decay width of the penta-quark system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412271,
title = {Narrow Width of Penta-Quark Baryons in QCD String Theory},
author = {Hideo Suganuma and Hiroko Ichie and Fumiko Okiharu and Toru T. Takahashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412271},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Talk at Int. Workshop on Pentaquark04, SPring-8, Japan, 20-23 Jul 2004