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Title: Decays of an exotic 1−+ hybrid meson resonance in QCD

Abstract

We present the first determination of the hadronic decays of the lightest exotic $$J^{PC}=1^{-+}$$ resonance in lattice QCD. Working with SU(3) flavor symmetry, where the up, down and strange quark masses approximately match the physical strange-quark mass giving $$m_\pi \sim 700$$ MeV, we compute finite-volume spectra on six lattice volumes which constrain a scattering system featuring eight coupled channels. Analytically continuing the scattering amplitudes into the complex energy plane, we find a pole singularity corresponding to a narrow resonance which shows relatively weak coupling to the open pseudoscalar–pseudoscalar, vector–pseudoscalar and vector–vector decay channels, but large couplings to at least one kinematically-closed axial-vector–pseudoscalar channel. Attempting a simple extrapolation of the couplings to physical light-quark mass suggests a broad $$\pi_1$$ resonance decaying dominantly through the $$b_1 \pi$$ mode with much smaller decays into $$f_1 \pi$$, $$\rho \pi$$, $$\eta' \pi$$ and $$\eta \pi$$. A large total width is potentially in agreement with the experimental $$\pi_1(1564)$$ candidate state, observed in $$\eta \pi$$, $$\eta' \pi$$, which we suggest may be heavily suppressed decay channels.

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Research Org.:
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF), Newport News, VA (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR). Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); German Research Foundation (DFG); Engineering and Physical Sciences Resource Council (EPSRC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1770244
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1770807
Report Number(s):
JLAB-THY-20-3249; DOE/OR/23177-5153; arXiv:2009.10034
Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010; 054502
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0018416; 17-SC-20-SC; AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231; AC05-06OR23177; EP/P020259/1; ST/R00689X/1; ST/P002307/1; ST/R002452/1; ST/P000681/1
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Physical Review. D.
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Physical Review. D. Journal Volume: 103 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; hadron-hadron interactions; hadronic decays; lattice QCD; strong interaction; exotic mesons; hybrid mesons; light mesons

Citation Formats

Woss, Antoni J., Dudek, Jozef J., Edwards, Robert G., Thomas, Christopher E., and Wilson, David J. Decays of an exotic 1−+ hybrid meson resonance in QCD. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevd.103.054502.
Woss, Antoni J., Dudek, Jozef J., Edwards, Robert G., Thomas, Christopher E., & Wilson, David J. Decays of an exotic 1−+ hybrid meson resonance in QCD. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.054502
Woss, Antoni J., Dudek, Jozef J., Edwards, Robert G., Thomas, Christopher E., and Wilson, David J. Wed . "Decays of an exotic 1−+ hybrid meson resonance in QCD". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.103.054502.
@article{osti_1770244,
title = {Decays of an exotic 1−+ hybrid meson resonance in QCD},
author = {Woss, Antoni J. and Dudek, Jozef J. and Edwards, Robert G. and Thomas, Christopher E. and Wilson, David J.},
abstractNote = {We present the first determination of the hadronic decays of the lightest exotic $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$ resonance in lattice QCD. Working with SU(3) flavor symmetry, where the up, down and strange quark masses approximately match the physical strange-quark mass giving $m_\pi \sim 700$ MeV, we compute finite-volume spectra on six lattice volumes which constrain a scattering system featuring eight coupled channels. Analytically continuing the scattering amplitudes into the complex energy plane, we find a pole singularity corresponding to a narrow resonance which shows relatively weak coupling to the open pseudoscalar–pseudoscalar, vector–pseudoscalar and vector–vector decay channels, but large couplings to at least one kinematically-closed axial-vector–pseudoscalar channel. Attempting a simple extrapolation of the couplings to physical light-quark mass suggests a broad $\pi_1$ resonance decaying dominantly through the $b_1 \pi$ mode with much smaller decays into $f_1 \pi$, $\rho \pi$, $\eta' \pi$ and $\eta \pi$. A large total width is potentially in agreement with the experimental $\pi_1(1564)$ candidate state, observed in $\eta \pi$, $\eta' \pi$, which we suggest may be heavily suppressed decay channels.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevd.103.054502},
journal = {Physical Review. D.},
number = 5,
volume = 103,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Wed Mar 10 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}

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