Drawing on experimental data for baryon resonances, Hamiltonian effective field theory (HEFT) is used to predict the positions of the finite-volume energy levels to be observed in lattice QCD simulations of the lowest-lying J P = 1/2 − nucleon excitation. In the initial analysis, the phenomenological parameters of the Hamiltonian model are constrained by experiment and the finite-volume eigenstate energies are a prediction of the model. The agreement between HEFT predictions and lattice QCD results obtained on volumes with spatial lengths of 2 and 3 fm is excellent. These lattice results also admit a more conventional analysis where the low-energy coefficients are constrained by lattice QCD results, enabling a determination of resonance properties from lattice QCD itself. Finally, the role and importance of various components of the Hamiltonian model are examined.
We examine the phase shifts and inelasticities associated with the N * (1440) Roper resonance and connect these infinite-volume observables to the finite-volume spectrum of lattice QCD using Hamiltonian effective field theory. We explore three hypotheses for the structure of the Roper resonance. All three hypotheses are able to describe the scattering data well. In the third hypothesis the Roper resonance couples the low-lying bare basis-state component associated with the ground state nucleon with the virtual meson-baryon contributions. Here the non-trivial superpositions of the meson-baryon scattering states are complemented by bare basis-state components explaining their observation in contemporary lattice QCD calculations. The merit of this scenario lies in its ability to not only describe the observed nucleon energy levels in large-volume lattice QCD simulations but also explain why other low-lying states have been missed in today's lattice QCD results for the nucleon spectrum.
The positive-parity nucleon spectrum is explored in $2 + 1$-flavour lattice
QCD in a search for new low-lying energy eigenstates near the energy regime of
the Roper resonance. In addition to conventional three-quark operators, we
consider novel, local five-quark meson-baryon type interpolating fields that
hold the promise to reveal new eigenstates that may have been missed in
previous analyses. Drawing on phenomenological insight, five-quark operators
based on $\sigma{N}$, $\pi{N}$ and $a_0{N}$ channels are constructed. Spectra
are produced in a high-statistics analysis on the PACS-CS dynamical gauge-field
configurations with $m_{\pi} = 411\textrm{ MeV}$ via variational analyses of
several operator combinations. Despite the introduction of qualitatively
different interpolating fields, no new states are observed in the energy regime
of the Roper resonance. This result provides further evidence that the
low-lying finite-volume scattering states are not localised, and strengthens
the interpretation of the Roper as a coupled-channel, dynamically-generated
meson-baryon resonance.Comment: 7 Pages, 2 Figure
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