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C. Garcia-Recio

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Exotic dynamically generated baryons with negative charm quantum number

Following a model based on the $\rm{SU}(8)$ symmetry that treats heavy pseudo-scalars and heavy vector mesons on an equal footing, as required by heavy quark symmetry, we study the interaction of baryons and mesons in coupled channels within an unitary approach that generates dynamically poles in the scattering $T$-matrix. We concentrate in the exotic channels with negative charm quantum number for which there is the experimental claim of one state.

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Charmed mesons in nuclear matter

We obtain the properties of charmed mesons in dense matter using a coupled-channel approach which accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies in a self-consistent manner. We study the behaviour of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances together with the open-charm meson spectral functions in this dense nuclear environment. We discuss the implications of the in-medium properties of open-charm mesons on the $D_{s0}(2317)$ and the predicted X(3700) scalar resonances, and on the formation of $D$-mesic nuclei.

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Charmed hadrons in nuclear medium

We study the properties of charmed hadrons in dense matter within a coupled-channel approach which accounts for Pauli blocking effects and meson self-energies in a self-consistent manner. We analyze the behaviour in this dense environment of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances as well as the open-charm meson spectral functions. We discuss the implications of the in-medium properties of open-charm mesons on the $D_{s0}(2317)$ and the predicted X(3700) scalar resonances.

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The properties of D and D* mesons in the nuclear medium

We study the properties of $D$ and $D^*$ mesons in nuclear matter within a simultaneous self-consistent coupled-channel unitary approach that implements heavy-quark symmetry. The in-medium solution accounts for Pauli blocking effects, and for the $D$ and $D^*$ self-energies in a self-consistent manner. We pay a special attention to the renormalization of the intermediate propagators in the medium beyond the usual cutoff scheme. We analyze the behavior in the nuclear medium of the rich spectrum of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances in the C=1 and S=0 sector, and their influence in the self-energy and, hence, the spectral function of the $D$ and $D^*$ mesons. The $D$ meson quasiparticle peak mixes with $Σ_c(2823)N^{-1}$ and $Σ_c(2868)N^{-1}$ states while the $Λ_c(2595)N^{-1}$ mode is present in the low-energy tail of the spectral function. The $D^*$ spectral function incorporates $J=3/2$ resonances, and $Σ_c(2902)N^{-1}$ and $Λ_c(2941)N^{-1}$ fully determine the behavior of $D^*$ meson spectral function at the quasiparticle peak. As density increases, these resonant-hole modes tend to smear out and the spectral functions get broad. We also obtain the $D$ and $D^*$ scattering lengths, and optical potentials for different density regimes. The $D$ meson potential stays attractive while the $D^*$ meson one is repulsive with increasing densities up to twice that of the normal nuclear matter. Compared to previous in-medium SU(4) models, we obtain similar values for the real part of the $D$ meson potential but much smaller imaginary parts. This result can have important implications for the observation of $D^0$-nucleus bound states.

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Strange and charm mesons at FAIR

We study the properties of strange and charm mesons in hot and dense matter within a self-consistent coupled-channel approach for the experimental conditions of density and temperature expected for the CBM experiment at FAIR/GSI. The in-medium solution at finite temperature accounts for Pauli blocking effects, mean-field binding of all the baryons involved, and meson self-energies. We analyze the behaviour in this hot and dense environment of dynamically-generated baryonic resonances together with the evolution with density and temperature of the strange and open-charm meson spectral functions. We test the spectral functions for strange mesons using energy-weighted sum rules and finally discuss the implications of the properties of charm mesons on the D_{s0}(2317) and the predicted X(3700) scalar resonances.

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Charmed baryon resonances with heavy-quark symmetry

We study charmed baryon resonances that are generated dynamically from a coupled-channel unitary approach that implements heavy-quark symmetry. Some states can already be identified with experimental observations, such as $Λ_c(2595)$, $Λ_c(2660)$, $Σ_c(2902)$ or $Λ_c(2941)$, while others need a compilation of more experimental data as well as an extension of the model to include higher order contributions. We also compare our model to previous SU(4) schemes.

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CP violation in the effective action of the Standard Model

Following a suggestion by Smit, the CP odd terms of the effective action of the Standard Model, obtained by integration of quarks and leptons, are computed to sixth order within a strict covariant derivative expansion approach. No other approximations are made. The final result so derived includes all Standard Model gauge fields and Higgs. Remarkably, at the order considered in this work, all parity violating contributions turn out to be zero. Non vanishing CP violating terms are obtained in the C-odd P-even sector. These are several orders of magnitude larger than perturbative estimates. Various unexpected regularities in the final result are noted.

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The s-wave charmed baryon resonances from a coupled-channel approach with heavy quark symmetry

We study charmed baryon resonances which are generated dynamically within a unitary meson-baryon coupled channel model that treats the heavy pseudoscalar and vector mesons on equal footing as required by heavy-quark symmetry. It is an extension of recent SU(4) models with t-channel vector meson exchanges to a SU(8) spin-flavor scheme, but differs considerably from the SU(4) approach in how the strong breaking of the flavor symmetry is implemented. Some of our dynamically generated states can be readily assigned to recently observed baryon resonances, while others do not have a straightforward identification and require the compilation of more data as well as an extension of the model to d-wave meson-baryon interactions and p-wave coupling in the neglected s- and u-channel diagrams. Of several novelties, we find that the Lambda_c(2595), which emerged as a ND quasi-bound state within the SU(4) approaches, becomes predominantly a ND* quasi-bound state in the present SU(8) scheme.

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Chiral SU(3) Bethe Salpeter Model: Extension to SU(6) and SU(8) Spin-Flavor Symmetries

Consistent SU(6) and SU(8) spin-flavor extensions of the SU(3) flavor Weinberg-Tomozawa (WT) meson-baryon chiral Lagrangian are constructed, which incorporate vector meson degrees of freedom. In the charmless sector, the on-shell approximation to the Bethe-Salpeter (BS) approach successfully reproduces previous SU(3) WT results for the lowest-lying s--wave negative parity baryon resonances. It also provides some information on the dynamics of heavier ones and of the lightest d-wave negative parity resonances, as e.g. the Lambda(1520). For charmed baryons the scheme is consistent with heavy quark symmetry, and our preliminary results in the strangeness-less charm C=+1 sector describe the main features of the three-star J^P=1/2^- Lambda_c(2595) and J^P=3/2^- Lambda_c(2625) resonances. We also find a second broad J^P=1/2^- state close to the Lambda_c(2595)

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Resonances and the Weinberg--Tomozawa 56-baryon --35-meson interaction

Vector meson degrees of freedom are incorporated into the Weinberg-Tomozawa (WT) meson-baryon chiral Lagrangian by using a scheme which relies on spin--flavor SU(6) symmetry. The corresponding Bethe-Salpeter approximation successfully reproduces previous SU(3)--flavor WT results for the lowest-lying s--wave negative parity baryon resonances, and it also provides some information on the dynamics of the heavier ones. Moreover, it also predicts the existence of an isoscalar spin-parity $\frac32^-$ $K^*N$ bound state (strangeness +1) with a mass around 1.7--1.8 GeV, unstable through $K^*$ decay. Neglecting d-wave KN decays, this state turns out to be quite narrow ($Γ\le 15$ MeV) and it might provide clear signals in reactions like $γp \to \bar K^0 p K^+π^-$ by looking at the three body $p K^+π^-$ invariant mass.

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Meson-Baryon s-wave Resonances with Strangeness -3

Starting from a consistent SU(6) extension of the Weinberg-Tomozawa (WT) meson-baryon chiral Lagrangian (Phys. Rev. D74 (2006) 034025), we study the s-wave meson-baryon resonances in the strangeness S=-3 and negative parity sector. Those resonances are generated by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation with the WT interaction used as kernel. The considered mesons are those of the 35-SU(6)-plet, which includes the pseudoscalar (PS) octet of pions and the vector (V) nonet of the rho meson. For baryons we consider the 56-SU(6)-plet, made of the 1/2+ octet of the nucleon and the 3/2+ decuplet of the Delta. Quantum numbers I(J^P)=0(3/2^-) are suggested for the experimental resonances Omega*(2250)- and Omega*(2380)-. Among other, resonances with I=1 are found, with minimal quark content sss\bar{l}l', being s the strange quark and l, l' any of the the light up or down quarks. A clear signal for such a pentaquark would be a baryonic resonance with strangeness -3 and electric charge of -2 or 0, in proton charge units. We suggest looking for K- Xi- resonances with masses around 2100 and 2240 MeV in the sector 1(1/2^-), and for pi Omega- and K- Xi*- resonances with masses around 2260 MeV in the sector 1(3/2^-).

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Large $N$ Weinberg-Tomozawa interaction and spin-flavor symmetry

The construction of an extended version of the Weinberg-Tomozawa Lagrangian, in which baryons and mesons form spin-flavor multiplets, is reviewed and some of its properties discussed, for an arbitrary number of colors and flavors. The coefficient tables of spin-flavor irreducible representations related by crossing between the $s$-, $t$- and $u$-channels are explicitly constructed.

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Large Nc Weinberg-Tomozawa interaction and negative parity s--wave baryon resonances

It is shown that in the 70 and 700 SU(6) irreducible spaces, the SU(6) extension of the Weinberg-Tomozawa (WT) s-wave meson-baryon interaction incorporating vector mesons ({\it hep-ph/0505233}) scales as ${\cal O}(N_c^0)$, instead of the well known ${\cal O}(N_c^{-1})$ behavior for its SU(3) counterpart. However, the WT interaction behaves as order ${\cal O}(N_c^{-1})$ within the 56 and 1134 meson-baryon spaces. Explicit expressions for the WT couplings (eigenvalues) in the irreducible SU(2$N_F$) spaces, for arbitrary $N_F$ and $N_c$, are given. This extended interaction is used as a kernel of the Bethe-Salpeter equation, to study the large $N_c$ scaling of masses and widths of the lowest--lying negative parity s-wave baryon resonances. Analytical expressions are found in the $N_c\to \infty$ limit, from which it can be deduced that resonance widths and excitation energies $(M_R-M)$ behave as order ${\cal O} (N^0_c)$, in agreement with model independent arguments, and moreover they fall in the 70-plet, as expected in constituent quark models for an orbital excitation. For the 56 and 1134 spaces, excitation energies and widths grow ${\cal O} (N_c^{1/2})$ indicating that such resonances do not survive in the large $N_c$ limit. The relation of this latter $N_c$ behavior with the existence of exotic components in these resonances is discussed. The interaction comes out repulsive in the 700.

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SU(6) Extension of the Weinberg-Tomozawa Meson-Baryon Lagrangian

A consistent SU(6) extension of the Weinberg-Tomozawa meson-baryon chiral Lagrangian is constructed which incorporates vector meson and baryon decuplet degrees of freedom. The corresponding Bethe-Salpeter approximation predicts the existence of an isoscalar spin-parity ${3/2}^-$ $K^*N$ bound state (strangeness +1) with a mass around 1.7--1.8$ $GeV. It is the highest hypercharge state of an antidecuplet SU(3) representation and it is unstable through $K^*$ decay. The estimated width of this state (neglecting d-wave $KN$ decay) turns out to be small ($Γ\le 15 $MeV). Clear signals of this resonance would be found in reactions like $γp \to {\bar K}^0 p K^+ π^-$ by looking at the three body $p K^+ π^-$ invariant mass.

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Quark mass dependence of s-wave baryon resonances

We study the quark mass dependence of $J^P = \frac12^-$ s-wave baryon resonances. Parameter free results are obtained in terms of the leading order chiral Lagrangian. In the 'heavy' SU(3) limit with $m_π=m_K \simeq $ 500 MeV the resonances turn into bound states forming two octets plus a singlet representations of the SU(3) group. A contrasted result is obtained in the 'light' SU(3) limit with $m_π=m_K \simeq $ 140 MeV for which no resonances exist. Using physical quark masses our analysis suggests to assign to the $S=-2$ resonances $Ξ(1690)$ and $Ξ(1620)$ the quantum numbers $J^P=1/2^-$.

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Chiral Symmetry and s-wave Low-Lying Meson-Baryon Resonances

The $s-$wave meson-baryon scattering is analyzed for the isospin-strangeness $I=1/2, S=0$ and $I=0,S=-1$ sectors, in a Bethe-Salpeter coupled channel formalism incorporating Chiral Symmetry. For both sectors, four channels have been considered: $πN$, $ηN$, $K Λ$, $K Σ$ and $πΣ$, $\bar K N$, $ηΛ$, $K Ξ$, respectively. The needed two particle irreducible matrix amplitudes are taken from lowest order Chiral Perturbation Theory in a relativistic formalism. There appear undetermined low energy constants, as a consequence of the renormalization of the amplitudes, which are obtained from fits to the available data: elastic $πN $ phase-shifts, $π^- p \to ηn$ and $π^- p \to K^0 Λ$ cross sections and to $πΣ\toπΣ$ mass-spectrum, the elastic $\bar K N \to \bar K N$ and $ \bar K N\to πΣ$ $t$--matrices and to the $ K^- p \to ηΛ$ cross section data. The position and residues of the complex poles in the second Riemann sheet of the scattering amplitude determine masses, widths and branching ratios of the $S_{11}-$ $N$(1535) and $-N$(1650) and $S_{01}-$ $Λ$(1405) and $-Λ$(1670) resonances, in reasonable agreement with experiment. A good overall description of data, from threshold up to around 2 GeV is achieved despite the fact that three-body channels have not been explicitly included.

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$K^-$-Nucleus Scattering at Low and Intermediate Energies

We calculate $K^-$-nucleus elastic differential, reaction and total cross sections for different nuclei ($^{12}$C,$^{40}$Ca and $^{208}$Pb) at several laboratory antikaon momenta, ranging from 127 MeV to 800 MeV. We use different antikaon-nucleus optical potentials, some of them fitted to kaonic atom data, and study the sensitivity of the cross sections to the considered antikaon-nucleus dynamics.

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$S=-1$ Meson-Baryon Unitarized Coupled Channel Chiral Perturbation Theory and the $S_{01}-$ $Λ$(1405) and $- Λ$(1670) Resonances

The $s-$wave meson-baryon scattering is analyzed for the strangeness $S=-1$ and isospin I=0 sector in a Bethe-Salpeter coupled channel formalism incorporating Chiral Symmetry. Four channels have been considered: $πΣ$, $\bar K N$, $ηΛ$ and $K Ξ$. The required input to solve the Bethe-Salpeter equation is taken from lowest order Chiral Perturbation Theory in a relativistic formalism. There appear undetermined low energy constants, as a consequence of the renormalization of the amplitudes, which are obtained from fits to the $πΣ\toπΣ$ mass-spectrum, to the elastic $\bar K N \to \bar K N$ and $ \bar K N\to πΣ$ $t$--matrices and to the $ K^- p \to ηΛ$ cross section data. The position and residues of the complex poles in the second Riemann Sheet of the scattering amplitude determine masses, widths and branching ratios of the $S_{01}-$ $Λ$(1405) and $-Λ$(1670) resonances, in reasonable agreement with experiment. A good overall description of data, from $πΣ$ threshold up to 1.75 GeV, is achieved despite the fact that three-body channels have not been explicitly included.

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