Compositeness of baryonic resonances: Applications to the Delta(1232), N(1535), and N(1650) resonances

Abstract

We present a formulation of the compositeness for baryonic resonances in order to discuss the meson-baryon molecular structure inside the resonances. For this purpose, we derive a relation between the residue of the scattering amplitude at the resonance pole position and the two-body wave function of the resonance in a sophisticated way, and we define the compositeness as the norm of the two-body wave functions. As applications, we investigate the compositeness of the $\Delta (1232)$, $N(1535)$, and $N(1650)$ resonances from precise $\pi N$ scattering amplitudes in a unitarized chiral framework with the interaction up to the next-to-leading order in chiral perturbation theory. The $\pi N$ compositeness for the $\Delta (1232)$ resonance is evaluated in the $\pi N$ single-channel scattering, and we find that the $\pi N$ component inside $\Delta (1232)$ in the present framework is nonnegligible, which supports the previous work. On the other hand, the compositeness for the $N(1535)$ and $N(1650)$ resonances is evaluated in a coupled-channels approach, resulting that the $\pi N$, $\eta N$, $K\Lambda$ and $K\Sigma$ components are negligible for these resonances.

Comments: 23 pages, 7 eps figures, version accepted for publication in PRC, discussions improved