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Two-pole structures in QCD -- a universal phenomenon governed by chiral dynamics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-04-07 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We illustrate how the two-pole structures of the Λ(1405)\Lambda(1405) emerge from the underlying universal chiral dynamics that describe the coupled-channel interactions between octet baryons and pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons. Specifically, we attribute this phenomenon to the form of the leading-order chiral potential, which is of the Weinberg-Tomozawa type. We reveal how the underlying chiral dynamics can be exposed by examining the light-quark mass evolution of the two poles. The latest lattice QCD simulations have indeed found evidence for the existence of the two poles of Λ(1405)\Lambda(1405), in qualitative agreement with our predictions. We briefly mention a recent work in which lattice QCD simulations are studied more quantitatively, along with a proposal for how the SU(3) flavor content of the two poles of Λ(1405)\Lambda(1405) can be experimentally verified.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2504.03392,
  title  = {Two-pole structures in QCD -- a universal phenomenon governed by chiral dynamics},
  author = {Jia-Ming Xie and Jun-Xu Lu and Li-Sheng Geng and Bing-Song Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.03392},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

15 pages, 4 figures; plenary talk at the 11th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics (CD2024)

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