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Strangeness -2 hypertriton

Nuclear Theory 2015-06-12 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We have solved for the first time the Faddeev equations for the bound state problem of the coupled ΛΛN\Lambda\Lambda N--ΞNN\Xi NN system to study whether an hypertriton with strangeness -2 may exist or not. We make use of the interactions obtained from a chiral quark model describing the low-energy observables of the two-baryon systems with strangeness 0, -1, and -2 and three-baryon systems with strangeness 0 and -1. The ΛΛN\Lambda\Lambda N system alone is unbound. However, when the full coupling to ΞNN\Xi NN is considered, the strangeness -2 three-baryon system with quantum numbers (I,JP)=(1/2,1/2+)(I,J^P)=(1/2,1/2^+) becomes bound, with a binding energy of about 0.5 MeV. This result is compatible with the non-existence of a stable Λ3^3_\LambdaH with isospin one.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1212.1369,
  title  = {Strangeness -2 hypertriton},
  author = {H. Garcilazo and A. Valcarce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1369},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 2 tables, accepted for publication in PRL

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