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Based on the formulae introduced in Sec. 2, the baryon masses are then fixed by Eq. (32), which include both the center-of-mass corrections in Eq. (24) and color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interactions in Eq. (30). We then fit to the mass spectra of baryons with angular momentum
$ l = 0 $ and masses$ M<1.35 $ GeV at$ C = -1 $ ,$ -0.5 $ ,$ -0.2 $ , 0, 0.2, 0.5, 0.7, 1, where the experimental baryon masses are taken from Particle Data Group[81]. The obtained parameter sets that best reproduce the experimental values are indicated in Table 1.$C$ $\sqrt{D}$ $f$ $ \alpha_{\rm{s} }^\mathrm{ll} $ $ \alpha_{\rm{s} }^\mathrm{ls} $ $ \alpha_{\rm{s} }^\mathrm{ss} $ $-1$ 190.06 2.79 0.654 0.476 0.170 $-0.5$ 169.44 2.50 0.857 0.621 0.299 $-0.2$ 157.30 2.50 1.026 0.774 0.149 0.0 150.59 2.39 1.155 0.857 0.237 0.2 144.58 2.32 1.321 0.995 0.296 0.5 135.42 2.28 1.610 1.230 0.197 0.7 130.12 2.24 1.846 1.421 0.194 1.0 122.88 2.19 2.287 1.778 0.178 Table 1. The parameter sets that best fit the experimental baryon spectra for the quark mass scaling in Eq. (10) and the strong coupling constants. The current masses of quarks are taken as
$ m_\mathrm{u0}^{}=2.16^{+0.49}_{-0.26} $ MeV,$ m_\mathrm{d0}^{}= 4.67^{+0.48}_{-0.17} $ MeV, and$ m_\mathrm{s0}^{}=93^{+11}_{-5} $ MeV[80-81].To illustrate our results, in Fig. 1 we present the obtained baryon masses by taking
$ C = -1 $ , 0, 0.7, and 1, where the corresponding parameter sets are listed in Table 1. In particular, we first fix the parameters$ D $ ,$ f $ , and$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ ($\mathrm{l = u, d }$ ) by reproducing the masses of$\mathrm{p}$ ,$\mathrm{n}$ ,$ \Lambda $ , and$ \Delta $ . According to the quark mass scaling in Eq. (10), the confinement ($ D $ ) and perturbative ($ C $ ) interactions provide the bulk properties of baryon mass spectra, where a distinctive$ C $ -$ D $ correlation can be obtained. The fine structures such as the mass differences between nucleons$\mathrm{N} $ ($\mathrm{p}$ ,$\mathrm{n}$ ) and$ \Lambda $ -hyperons$ \varDelta M_\mathrm{N\Lambda}^{} $ determines$ f $ , while$ \varDelta M_\mathrm{N\Delta}^{} $ determines the strong coupling constant$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ for the color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interaction. Based on those parameter sets and assuming unified strong coupling constants$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} = \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} = \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ , we then estimate the masses of other baryons, which are indicated by the dots connected by dashed lines in Fig. 1. It is evident that our model slightly underestimates the masses of$ \Sigma $ ,$ \Xi $ and overestimates the masses of their excited states$ \Sigma^* $ ,$ \Xi^* $ as well as$ \Omega $ . The slight deviations from the experimental baryon masses could be attributed to the variation of strong coupling constant on quark masses, which is in principle running with the energy scale.Figure 1. The obtained masses of baryons consisting of light quarks adopting the parameter sets indicated in Table 1. The dots connected by dashed lines are fixed by taking unified values for strong coupling constants
$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss}=\alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls}=\alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ , while those connected by the solid lines (indicated in Table 2) adopt strong coupling constants that vary with the contents of interacting quark pairs.(color online)To better reproduce the mass spectra of light baryons, we thus adopt different strong coupling constants for quark pairs with strangeness, i.e.,
$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss}\neq\alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls}\neq\alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ . The strong coupling constants are then fixed by fitting$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} $ to the mass of$ \Sigma^0 $ and$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} $ to the masses of$ \Xi $ , which are indicated in Table 1. Then the mass corrections$ \varDelta M $ from the color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interactions are modified for$ \Sigma $ ,$ \Xi $ ,$ \Sigma^* $ ,$ \Xi^* $ and$ \Omega $ . The obtained mass spectra are indicated by the dots connected by the solid curves in Fig. 1, where the agreement between predicted and experimental values is obviously improved. In particular, the experimental values of baryons with$ M<1.5 $ GeV are well reproduced. For more massive baryons$ \Xi^* $ and$ \Omega $ , our model slightly underestimates their masses. Nevertheless, the deviation decreases if we adopt negative$ C $ , which in principle incorporates the color-electric part of one-gluon-exchange interactions[71].The numerical results correspond to the dots connected by the solid curves in Fig. 1 are presented in Table 2. The root-mean-square deviations
$ \sigma $ from the experimental values of$ N = 18 $ baryons are indicated, which are fixed by$J^P$ Baryon Quark content $M_\mathrm{exp}^{}$/MeV $M_\mathrm{cal}^{}$/MeV $C=-1$ $C=0$ $C=0.7$ $C=1$ $\frac{1}{2}^+$ $\mathrm{p}$ $\mathrm{u(ud)}_0^{} $ 938.272 046(21) 938.0 938.0 936.4 935.5 $\mathrm{n} $ $ \mathrm{d(ud)}_0^{} $ 939.565 379(21) 941.4 941.8 940.5 939.7 $ \Lambda $ $ \mathrm{s(ud)}_0^{} $ 1 115.683(6) 1 114.5 1 113.7 1 115.6 1 115.5 $ \Sigma^+ $ $\mathrm{s(uu)}_1^{} $ 1 189.37(7) 1 189.4 1 188.9 1 188.6 1 188.5 $ \Sigma^0 $ $\mathrm{s(ud)}_1^{} $ 1 192.642(24) 1 192.6 1 192.6 1 192.6 1 192.6 $ \Sigma^- $ $\mathrm{s(dd)}_1^{} $ 1 197.449(30) 1 198.1 1 198.1 1 198.1 1 198.1 $ \Xi^0 $ $\mathrm{u(ss)}_1^{} $ 1 314.86(20) 1 315.4 1 315.3 1 315.2 1 315.2 $ \Xi^- $ $\mathrm{d(ss)}_1^{} $ 1 321.71(7) 1 321.2 1 321.3 1 321.4 1 321.4 $\frac{3}{2}^+$ $ \Delta^- $ $\mathrm{ddd}$ 1 232(2) 1 236.9 1 237.3 1 237.2 1 237.5 $ \Delta^0 $ $\mathrm{udd}$ 1 232(2) 1 231.4 1 232.3 1 232.6 1 233.0 $ \Delta^+ $ $\mathrm{uud}$ 1 232(2) 1 227.8 1 228.5 1 228.8 1 229.2 $ \Delta^{++} $ $\mathrm{uuu}$ 1 232(2) 1 226.2 1 226.3 1 226.0 1 226.3 $ \Sigma^{*-} $ $\mathrm{dds}$ 1 387.2(5) 1 391.4 1 381.8 1 378.8 1 377.0 $ \Sigma^{*0} $ $\mathrm{uds}$ 1 383.7(10) 1 386.1 1 376.8 1 374.0 1 372.4 $ \Sigma^{*+} $ $\mathrm{uus}$ 1 382.80(35) 1 382.7 1 373.2 1 370.3 1 368.6 $ \Xi^{*-} $ $\mathrm{dss}$ 1 535.0(6) 1 529.3 1 514.6 1 508.3 1 505.2 $ \Xi^{*0} $ $\mathrm{uss}$ 1 531.80(32) 1 524.1 1 509.6 1 503.4 1 500.4 $ \Omega^- $ $\mathrm{sss}$ 1 672.45(29) 1 651.3 1 635.3 1 624.2 1 620.2 $\sigma = \sqrt{\sum_i^{} (M_\mathrm{cal}^i-M_\mathrm{exp}^i)^2/N}$ 6.0 11.9 15.4 16.8 Table 2. The masses
$M_\mathrm{cal}^{}$ for baryons with given spins$J$ and parities$P$ , which are obtained with Eq. (32) adopting the parameter sets listed in Table 1. For baryons with$J^P=\frac{1}{2}^+$ , the quark pair$\mathrm{q}_j^{} $ and$ \mathrm{q}_k^{} $ with a total spin$S$ is indicated by$ \mathrm{q}_i^{}(\mathrm{q}_j^{}\mathrm{q}_k^{})_S^{} $ , which determines the interaction coefficients according to Eq. (31). The root-mean-square deviation$\sigma$ (in MeV) for each parameter sets are presented, where the experimental masses$M_\mathrm{exp}^{}$ are taken from the Particle Data Group[81].with
$ M_\mathrm{cal}^i $ and$ M_\mathrm{exp}^i $ being the numerical and experimental baryon masses. It is found that$ \sigma $ is generally on the order of$ 10 $ MeV and increase with$ C $ . Note that for baryons with spin$ J = {1}/{2} $ , quarks form pairs with total spin$ S = 0 $ and 1 as indicated in Table 2, which determines the interaction coefficients$ a_{i,j}^{} $ for the color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interaction in Eq. (31). For baryons with spin$ J = {3}/{2} $ , all three quarks' spins are aligned.In Fig. 2 we present the center-of-mass correction parameter
$ \varGamma $ , the root-mean-square radius$ \sqrt{\left\langle r^2 \right\rangle} $ and the mass correction$ \varDelta M $ from the color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interaction, which are in correspondence to the baryon spectra indicated in Fig. 1 and Table 2. For baryons obtained with different parameter sets, it is found that the center-of-mass correction parameter$ \varGamma $ is generally inversely proportional to the root-mean-square radius$ \sqrt{\left\langle r^2 \right\rangle} $ , which is due to the enhancement of kinetic energy of quarks as baryons become more compact. Nevertheless, the variation of$ \varGamma $ share similar trends as that of$ \sqrt{\left\langle r^2 \right\rangle} $ , where the strange quark mass plays the leading role. The mass corrections$ \varDelta M $ of$\mathrm{p}$ ,$\mathrm{n}$ ,$ \Lambda $ , and$ \Delta $ from the color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interactions are invariant to the adopted parameter set, which is mainly because we fit our parameter sets based on those baryons. If we examine other baryons, as indicated by the dashed lines, slight variations are observed for hyperons when we take$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} = \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} = \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ (dashed lines). Similar situation is observed if we take$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss}\neq\alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls}\neq\alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ , where$ \varDelta M $ varies little for$ \Sigma $ and$ \Xi $ since$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} $ and$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} $ are fixed according to their masses. This suggests that the mass correction$ \varDelta M $ from the color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interactions is insensitive to the adopted model parameters, which are expected to play important roles in color superconductivity in dense quark matter[89], the strength of symmetry energy coefficient$ C_I^{} $ of quark matter as in Eq. (7), as well as the strong interactions among baryons[90].Figure 2. The center-of-mass correction parameter
$\varGamma$ , the root-mean-square radius$\sqrt{\left\langle r^2 \right\rangle}$ and the mass correction$\varDelta M$ from the color-magnetic part of one-gluon-exchange interactions obtained with Eqs. (22), (23) and (30). (color online)As indicated in Table 1, we have considered additional four parameter sets with
$ C = -0.5 $ ,$ -0.2 $ , 0.2, and 0.5, where the parameters$ D $ ,$ f $ ,$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ ,$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} $ , and$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} $ are fixed in a same manner. The parameters that best reproduce the experimental baryon spectra are then plotted in Fig. 3, which can be well approximated by the following formulae, i.e.,Figure 3. The fitted parameters for the quark mass scaling in Eq. (10), the strong coupling constants, and mass the root-mean-square deviation
$\sigma$ as functions of parameter$C.$ (color online)It is found that the confinement strength
$ D $ (in MeV2) decreases with the perturbative strength$ C $ , which is attributed to the fixed masses of baryons as both confinement and perturbative interactions contribute positively to the total mass. The mass factor$ f $ ranges from 2.19 to 2.79, suggesting the strange quark mass should be at least 210 MeV to account for the mass difference between$\mathrm{N} $ and$ \Lambda $ . This has significant implications on the stability of strange quark matter, where$\mathrm{ud} $ quark matter might be more stable[55]. Meanwhile, we note$ f $ decreases slightly with$C$ , where the mass difference$ \varDelta M_\mathrm{N\Lambda}^{} $ is mainly from$ fm_\mathrm{s0}^{} $ instead of its kinetic energy as the baryons become less compact. In this work, we have considered two scenarios for the strong coupling constants of one-gluon-exchange interactions, i.e., a unified value with$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^{} = \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} = \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} = \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ and flavor-dependent ones with$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} \neq \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} \neq \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ . To better describe the masses of hyperons, it is found that$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ss} < \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ls} < \alpha_\mathrm{s}^\mathrm{ll} $ , which is reasonable as$ \alpha_\mathrm{s}^{} $ should decrease with the total mass of each quark pair. Meanwhile, the strong coupling constants generally increase with$ C $ , which may be attributed to the running coupling constant with respect to the density or radius, e.g., those in Ref. [91].The relative differences between our calculation and the experimental baryon masses are indicated in Fig. 4, where the strong coupling constant are flavor-dependent. The root-mean-square deviations for the cases with unified strong coupling constant, flavor-dependent strong coupling constant and light baryons with
$ M<1.35 $ GeV are indicated in the lower panel of Fig. 3, which are obtained with Eq. (33) at$ N = 18 $ , 18 and 12, respectively. As$ C $ increases, it is found that$ \sigma $ decreases if unified strong coupling constant is adopted. Meanwhile, as indicated in Fig. 4, the deviations from the experiment baryon masses increases with$ C $ for flavor-dependent strong coupling constant, i.e.,$ \sigma $ increases with$ C $ . Since we have fitted our parameters according to the masses of$\mathrm{p}$ ,$\mathrm{n} $ ,$ \Lambda $ ,$ \Delta $ ,$ \Sigma $ and$ \Xi $ , the relative deviations are much smaller for light baryons with$ M<1.35 $ GeV in comparison to heavier ones. Then the root-mean-square deviation$ \sigma\approx2.5 $ -3.9 MeV and is insensitive to the parameter sets adopted here. In such cases, we expect the model parameters indicated in Table 1 are best applied to systems with small baryon chemical potentials$ \mu_\mathrm{b}^{}\lesssim 1.35 $ GeV.Figure 4. The relative differences between the obtained masses of baryons and their experimental values. The baryons are all comprised of light quarks with masses
$M_\mathrm{exp}^{}<1.7$ GeV. (color online)In Table 3 we present the mass gaps of baryons in various isospin-multiplets, which indicate the isospin breaking effects in baryons and are fixed by
$M(I,\,I_3^{}-1)-M(I,\,I_3^{})$ or$[M(I,\,I_3^{}-2)-M(I,\,I_3^{})]/2$ . The corresponding quark mass splitting is obtained with$ \varDelta m_\mathrm{ud}^{} = f (m_\mathrm{d0}^{}-m_\mathrm{u0}^{}) $ , where the mass factor$ f $ indicated in Table 1 is adopted. Evidently, the mass gaps in isospin-multiplets are generally small comparing with baryon masses, which is attributed to the small mass differences$ \varDelta m_\mathrm{ud}^{} $ between$\mathrm{u} $ and$\mathrm{d}$ quarks. The mass gaps are dominated by$ \varDelta m_\mathrm{ud}^{} $ , which are slightly dampened due to the nonzero kinetic energy of quarks. The Coulomb interaction contributes ~0.5-1 MeV to the masses of baryons with charge number$ Q = \pm1 $ , which reduces the mass splitting for nucleons$\mathrm{N} $ but increases for$ \Xi $ and$ \Xi^*. $ The one-gluon-exchange interaction usually works against the isospin breaking effects except for$ \Xi $ , e.g., the corresponding contributions to the mass splittings for$\mathrm{N} $ ,$ \Sigma $ ,$ \Xi $ ,$ \Delta $ ,$ \Sigma^* $ and$ \Xi^* $ are$ -0.17 $ ,$ -0.02 $ , 0.67,$ -0.17 $ ,$ -0.31 $ and$ -0.34 $ MeV at$ C = 0 $ , respectively. Comparing with the experimental values, our model slightly overestimates the mass gaps for$\mathrm{N} $ ,$ \Sigma $ ,$ \Sigma^* $ ,$ \Xi^* $ and underestimates that of$ \Xi $ . This could in principle be improved by reducing$ \varDelta m_\mathrm{ud} ^{} $ . In general, the mass gaps obtained in our equivparticle model vary little with respect to the adopted parameter sets and deviate slightly from the experimental values ($ \lesssim3 $ MeV).C −1 −0.5 −0.2 0 0.2 0.5 0.7 1 Exp. $\mathrm{N}$ 3.4 3.4 3.8 3.8 4.1 4.1 4.2 4.2 1.3 $ \Sigma $ 4.4 4.4 4.6 4.6 4.8 4.7 4.9 4.8 4.0 $ \Xi $ 5.9 5.8 6.2 6.0 6.4 6.2 6.5 6.2 6.9 $ \Delta $ 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.7 3.8 3.8 3.8 3.8 – $ \Sigma^* $ 4.4 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.2 2.2 $ \Xi^* $ 5.2 5.3 4.9 5.0 4.7 4.9 4.6 4.8 3.2 $ \varDelta m_\mathrm{ud}^{} $ 7.0 6.3 6.3 6.0 5.8 5.7 5.6 5.5 – Table 3. Baryon and quark mass gaps (in MeV) of isospin-multiplets, which are fixed by varying the third component of isospin
$\varDelta I_3^{}=1$ .
Baryon Spectra in the Framework of an Equivparticle Model
doi: 10.11804/NuclPhysRev.39.2022111
- Received Date: 2022-08-02
- Rev Recd Date: 2022-08-20
- Publish Date: 2022-09-20
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Key words:
- baryon spectra /
- equivparticle model /
- one-gluon-exchange interaction
Abstract: Based on an equivparticle model incorporating both confinement and leading-order perturbative interactions, we fit the model parameters to the experimental masses of
Citation: | Haosong YOU, Chengjun XIA, Xinmei ZHU, Penghui CHEN, Jianfeng XU, Zhenyan LU, Guangxiong PENG, Renxin XU. Baryon Spectra in the Framework of an Equivparticle Model[J]. Nuclear Physics Review, 2022, 39(3): 302-310. doi: 10.11804/NuclPhysRev.39.2022111 |