Most Strange Dibaryon from Lattice QCD

Phys Rev Lett. 2018 May 25;120(21):212001. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.212001.

Abstract

The ΩΩ system in the ^{1}S_{0} channel (the most strange dibaryon) is studied on the basis of the (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD simulations with a large volume (8.1 fm)^{3} and nearly physical pion mass m_{π}≃146 MeV at a lattice spacing of a≃0.0846 fm. We show that lattice QCD data analysis by the HAL QCD method leads to the scattering length a_{0}=4.6(6)(_{-0.5}^{+1.2}) fm, the effective range r_{eff}=1.27(3)(_{-0.03}^{+0.06}) fm, and the binding energy B_{ΩΩ}=1.6(6)(_{-0.6}^{+0.7}) MeV. These results indicate that the ΩΩ system has an overall attraction and is located near the unitary regime. Such a system can be best searched experimentally by the pair-momentum correlation in relativistic heavy-ion collisions.