The Basic Kˉ\bar{K} nuclear cluster KppK^- pp and its enhanced formation in the p+pK++Xp + p \to K^+ + X reaction

Sep, 2007
18 pages
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  • Phys.Rev.C 76 (2007) 045201
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We have studied the structure of KppK^- pp nuclear cluster comprehensively by solving this three-body system exactly in a variational method starting from the Ansatz that the Λ(1405)\Lambda(1405) resonance (Λ)(\equiv\Lambda^*) is a KpK^- p bound state. We have found that our original prediction for the presence of KppK^-{pp} as a compact bound system with M=2322MeV/c2,Bk=48MeVM = 2322 MeV/c^2, B_k = 48 MeV and Γ=60MeV\Gamma = 60 MeV remains unchanged by varying the Kˉ\bar{K}N and NN interactions widely as far as they reproduce Λ(1405)\Lambda(1405). The structure of KppK^- pp reveals a molecular feature, namely, the KK^- in Λ\Lambda^* as an 'atomic center' plays a key role in producing strong covalent bonding with the other proton. We have shown that the elementary process, p+pK++Λ+pp + p \to K^+ + \Lambda^* + p, which occurs in a short impact parameter and with a large momentum transfer (Q 1.6(Q ~ 1.6 GeV/c), leads to unusually large self-trapping of Λ\Lambda^* by the participating proton, since the Λp\Lambda^* -p system exists as a compact doorway state propagating to Kpp(RΛp 1.67fm)K-_{pp}(R_{\Lambda*p} ~ 1.67 fm).
  • 21.30.Fe
  • 21.90.+f
  • 21.45.+v
  • 24.10.-i
  • bound state: (2p K-)
  • Lambda(1405): model
  • hadron: three-body problem
  • p p: interaction
  • Lambda(1405): hadroproduction
  • K+: associated production