English

The Thomas-Fermi quark model and mesonic matter

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-10-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

The first results of a new application of the Thomas-Fermi statistical quark model to mesonic matter is presented. Interesting aspects of the theory are discussed, distinguishing such states from baryonic matter. A major motivation of this study is the tetraquark states discovered by the Belle and other collaborations and the possibility that stable multi-quark families of such states exist. Similar to our previous baryonic study, we use a two-inequivalent wave function approach to investigate aspects of multi-quark matter. We think of our model as a tool for quickly assessing the characteristics of new, possibly bound, particle states of higher quark number content, which can not yet be examined by lattice methods.

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@article{arxiv.1710.00418,
  title  = {The Thomas-Fermi quark model and mesonic matter},
  author = {Suman Baral and Walter Wilcox},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.00418},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 9 figures, Talk presented at the APS Division of Particles and Fields Meeting (DPF 2017), July 31-August 4, 2017, Fermilab. C170731

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