Tetraquark and Pentaquark Systems in Lattice QCD

Abstract

Motivated by the recent experimental discoveries of multi-quark candidates, e.g., the ${\Theta }^{+}(1540)$, we study multi-quark systems in lattice QCD. First, we perform accurate mass measurements of low-lying 5Q states with $J=1/2$ and I=0 in both positive- and negative-parity channels in anisotropic lattice QCD. The lowest positive-parity 5Q state is found to have a large mass of about 2.24GeV after the chiral extrapolation. To single out the compact 5Q state from $NK$ scattering states, we develop a new method with the hybrid-boundary condition (HBC), and find no evidence of the compact 5Q state below 1.75GeV in the negative-parity channel. Second, we perform the first study of the multi-quark potential in lattice QCD to clarify the inter-quark interaction in multi-quark systems. The 5Q potential $V_{5Q}$ for the QQ-$\bar{\mathrm{Q}}$-QQ system is found to be well described by the ``OGE Coulomb plus multi-Y Ansatz": the sum of the one-gluon-exchange (OGE) Coulomb term and the multi-Y-type linear term based on the flux-tube picture. The 4Q potential $V_{4Q}$ for the QQ-$\bar{\mathrm{Q}}\bar{\mathrm{Q}}$ system is also described by the OGE Coulomb plus multi-Y Ansatz, when QQ and $\bar{\mathrm{Q}}\bar{\mathrm{Q}}$ are well separated. The 4Q system is described as a "two-meson" state with disconnected flux tubes, when the nearest quark and antiquark pair is spatially close. We observe a lattice-QCD evidence for the ``flip-flop'', i.e., the flux-tube recombination between the connected 4Q state and the ``two-meson'' state. On the confinement mechanism, the lattice QCD results indicate the flux-tube-type linear confinement in multi-quark hadrons.

22 pages, 3 tables, 16 figures. Talk given at International Workshop on Quark Nuclear Physics 2005 (QNP05), Phoenix Park, Korea, 22-24, Feb., 2005

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