Critical properties of bound states with one-boson-exchange potential

Abstract

In this study, we discuss some general critical properties of bound states with one-boson-exchange potential. For simplicity, we first take a system with two identical scalar particles as an example. The interaction between these two scalar particles is described by the exchange of another massive scalar meson under the instantaneous approximation, which results in the Yukawa potential. A highly accurate numerical method is used to determine the critical screening mass value of the system. The resulting critical screening mass for the ground state is consistent with those reported in the literature, agreeing to about 30 significant figures. The highly accurate results for the $l=1$ case are also presented, which are significantly more precise than those previously reported in the literature. Furthermore, we extend the discussion to physical hadronic molecule states, where form factors are introduced in the interaction to describe the structure of hadrons. Our numerical results show that although the binding energies of the hadronic molecule states depend on the cutoff in the form factors, the number of hadronic molecule states is almost independent of the cutoffs across a very wide physical region. This indicates a strong and important property: the number of hadronic molecule states is almost solely determined by the coupling constants and the masses of the exchange particles. This highly accurate numerical method can also be straightforwardly applied to higher $l$ cases or other systems.