26–30 Aug 2024
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Europe/Berlin timezone

Triangle Singularities in a Hilbert's House

26 Aug 2024, 18:30
20m
Saal 1 (Convention Centre)

Saal 1

Convention Centre

Working group talk WG1: Goldstone-Boson Dynamics WG1 parallel session

Speaker

Ajay Shanmuga Sakthivasan (University of Bonn)

Description

Our current understanding of hadrons is through QCD, and confinement in QCD leads to a rich spectrum of hadrons. Experimentally, hadronic resonances can appear as peaks in the invariant mass distributions. However, universal parameters of hadronic resonances are encoded theoretically in the poles of the $S$-matrix. Still, not all observed peaks necessarily correspond to hadronic resonances.

For example, the kinematical singularities, that correspond to intermediate particles going on shell and producing a peak in the invariant mass distributions, without any correspondence to a pole in the $S$-matrix. This was originally identified by Landau, and has been recently used to explain the $a_1(1420)$. We re-examine this scenario in the full three-body unitary formalism, utilising a recent approach, and extending it to the relevant coupled-channel system. We show the pattern and mechanism leading to the triangle singularity to all orders in exchange diagrams.

Primary authors

Ajay Shanmuga Sakthivasan (University of Bonn) Akaki Rusetsky (University of Bonn) Maxim Mai (University of Bonn)

Presentation materials