1. Chiral perturbation theory for pentaquark baryons and its applications
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Taekoon Lee, Jungil Lee, Jae-hyeon Park, and Pyungwon Ko
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Quantum chromodynamics ,Physics ,Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,Particle physics ,Chiral perturbation theory ,Nuclear Theory ,Meson ,Octet ,High Energy Physics::Lattice ,High Energy Physics::Phenomenology ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Pentaquark ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) ,Baryon ,High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) ,Exotic baryon ,High Energy Physics::Experiment ,Vector meson ,Nuclear Experiment - Abstract
We construct a chiral lagrangian for pentaquark baryons assuming that the recently found Theta^+ (1540) state belongs to an antidecuplet of SU(3) flavor symmetry with J^P = (1/2)^(+-). We derive the Gell-Mann-Okubo formulae for the antidecuplet baryon masses, and a possible mixing between the antidecuplet and the pentaquark octet. Then we calculate the cross sections for pi^- p -> K^- Theta^+ and gamma n -> K^- Theta^+ using our chiral lagrangian. The resulting amplitudes respect the underlying chiral symmetry of QCD correctly. We also describe how to include the light vector mesons in the chiral lagrangian., 4 pages
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- 2005
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