Strangeness -2 hypertriton

H. Garcilazo, A. Valcarce

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Abstract

We solve for the first time, the Faddeev equations for the bound state problem of the coupled ΛΛN-ΞNN system to study whether or not a hypertriton with strangeness -2 may exist. We make use of the interactions obtained from a chiral quark model describing the low-energy observables of the two-baryon systems with strangeness 0, -1, and -2 and three-baryon systems with strangeness 0 and -1. The ΛΛN system alone is unbound. However, when the full coupling to ΞNN is considered, the strangeness -2 three-baryon system with quantum numbers (I,JP)=(12,12+) becomes bound, with a binding energy of about 0.5 MeV. This result is compatible with the nonexistence of a stable HΛ3 with isospin one.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012503
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume110
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jan 2013

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