Workshop on the Physics of Excited Nucleon – NSTAR2009, Beijing, April 19 – 22, 2009

 

Invited plenary talk

 

Invited parallel talk

 

Oral contribution

 

Authors: A. Limphirat, K. Khosonthongkee, C. Kobdaj, P. Suebka and Y. Yan

Title: Lambda(1405) and Lambda(1520) decay  in non-relativistic quark model

Keywords: decay width, non-relativistic quark model, Lambda

Abstract:
Lambda(1405) and Lambda(1520)  have been investigated for decades but their internal structure  are still unclear. In this work we study the two baryons assuming that both of them are three-quark states with a P-wave s-quark. The partial decay widths of the processes Lambda(1405) to Sigma pi and Lambda(1520) to Sigma pi are evaluated in the 3P0 non-relativistic model with all model parameters fixed by other hadron processes. It is found that our theoretical results are well consistent with experimental data.
The work indicates that both the Lambda(1405) and Lambda(1520) may be three-quark states, which is not in line with that the Lambda(1405) has been interpreted as a KbarN resonance since it was discovered.