Wave function of the Roper from lattice QCD
We apply the eigenvectors from a variational analysis in lattice QCD to successfully extract the wave function of the Roper state, and a higher mass P11 state of the nucleon. We use the 2+1 flavour 323×64 PACS-CS configurations at a near-physical pion mass of 156 MeV. We find that both states exhibi...
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Published in | Physics letters. B Vol. 725; no. 1-3; pp. 164 - 169 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Elsevier B.V
01.08.2013
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Summary: | We apply the eigenvectors from a variational analysis in lattice QCD to successfully extract the wave function of the Roper state, and a higher mass P11 state of the nucleon. We use the 2+1 flavour 323×64 PACS-CS configurations at a near-physical pion mass of 156 MeV. We find that both states exhibit a structure consistent with a constituent quark model. The Roper d-quark wave function contains a single node consistent with a 2S state, and the third state wave function contains two, consistent with a 3S state. A detailed comparison with constituent quark model wave functions is carried out, obtained from a Coulomb plus ramp potential. These results validate the approach of accessing these states by constructing a variational basis composed of different levels of fermion source and sink smearing. Furthermore, significant finite volume effects are apparent for these excited states which mix with multi-particle states, driving their masses away from physical values and enabling the extraction of resonance parameters from lattice QCD simulations. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0370-2693 1873-2445 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.physletb.2013.06.056 |