Magnetic moments of antidecuplet pentaquarks

Abstract

We analyze the magnetic moment of the exotic pentaquarks of the flavor antidecuplet in the constituent quark model for the case in which the ground state is in an orbital L(p)=0(+) or a L(p)=1(-) state. We derive sum rules for the magnetic moments. The magnetic moment of the Theta(1540) is found to be 0.38, 0.09 and 1.05 mu_N for J(p)=1/2(-), 1/2(+) and 3/2(+), respectively, which is compared with the results obtained in other approaches.

Comments: 15 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables. Revised version, extended introduction and discussion, accepted for publication in Physics Letters B