The effect of the in-medium Θ^+ pentaquark on the kaon optical
potential
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by
Laura Tolos,
Daniel Cabrera,
Angels Ramos,
Artur Polls
2005
Abstract
The kaon nuclear optical potential is studied including the effect of the
Θ^+ pentaquark. The one-nucleon contribution is obtained using an
extension of the Jülich meson-exchange potential as bare kaon-nucleon
interaction. Significant differences between a fully self-consistent
calculation and the usually employed low-density Tρ approach are observed.
The influence of the one-nucleon absorption process, K N →Θ^+, on the
kaon optical potential is negligible due to the small width of the pentaquark.
In contrast, the two-nucleon mechanism, K N N →Θ^+ N, estimated from
the coupling of the pentaquark to a two-meson cloud, provides the required
amount of additional kaon absorption to reconcile with data the systematically
low K^+-nucleus reaction cross sections found by the theoretical models.
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