Effect of Chiral Symmetry Restoration on Pentaquark Theta+ Mass and Width at Finite Temp.pdfVIP

Effect of Chiral Symmetry Restoration on Pentaquark Θ+ Mass and Width at Finite Temperature and Density Xuguang Huang ∗ , Xuewen Hao † , and Pengfei Zhuang ‡ Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Collisions, Lanzhou 730000, China Physics Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China (Dated: February 8, 2008) We investigate the effect of chiral phase transition on the pentaquark Θ+ mass and width at one-loop level of N Θ+K coupling at finite temperature and density. The behavior of the mass, especially the width in hadronic medium is dominated by the characteristics of chiral symmetry restoration at high temperature and high density. The mass and width shifts of positive-parity Θ+ are much larger than that of negative-parity one, which may be helpful to determine the parity of Θ+ in high energy nuclear collisions. 5 PACS numbers: 13.60.Rj, 11.10.Wx, 25.75.-q 0 0 2 I. INTRODUCTION n a + + − J Recently, an exotic baryon Θ was discovered firstly by LEPS group at Spring-8 in the reaction γn → K K n [1], and was subsequently observed by many other groups[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]. It has K +n quantum 1 2 numbers(B=+1, Q=+1, S=+1), and its minimal quark content must be uudds¯. The remarkable features of the Θ+ are its small mass