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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 082301 (2007) [4 pages]

Faddeev Calculation of a K-pp Quasibound State

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N. V. Shevchenko1,*, A. Gal2, and J. Mareš1
1Nuclear Physics Institute, 25068 Řež, Czech Republic
2Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel

Received 11 October 2006; published 22 February 2007

We report on the first genuinely three-body K̅ NN-πΣN coupled-channel Faddeev calculation in search for quasibound states in the K-pp system. The main absorptivity in the K-p subsystem is accounted for by fitting to K-p data near threshold. Our calculation yields one such quasibound state, with I=1/2, Jπ=0-, bound in the range B∼55–70  MeV, with a width of Γ∼90–110  MeV. These results differ substantially from previous estimates, and are at odds with the K-ppΛp signal observed by the FINUDA collaboration.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.082301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.082301
PACS:
13.75.Jz, 11.80.Jy, 21.45.+v

*Corresponding author.

Electronic address: shevchenko@ujf.cas.cz