On the nature of the $\hat{I}›(1405)$ and $\hat{I}›(1670)$ from their $N_c$ behavior in chiral dynamics

Abstract

We study the behavior with the number of colors ($N_c$) of the $\hat{I}›(1405)$ and $\hat{I}›(1670)$ resonances obtained dynamically within the chiral unitary approach. The leading order meson-baryon interaction, used as the kernel of the unitarization procedure, manifests a nontrivial $N_c$ dependence of the flavor SU(3) representation for baryons. As a consequence, the SU(3) singlet (or $\bar{K}N$) component of the $\hat{I}›(1405)$ states remains bound in the large $N_c$ limit, while the other components dissolve into the continuum. Introducing explicit SU(3) breaking, we obtain the $N_c$ dependence of the excitation energy, masses and widths of the physical $\hat{I}›(1405)$ and $\hat{I}›(1670)$ resonance. The $N_c$ behavior of the decay width is found to be different from the general counting rule for a $qqq$ state, indicating the dynamical origin of these resonances.

29 pages, 8 figures