Abstract
The masses of pentaquarks are calculated within the framework of a semirelativistic effective QCD Hamiltonian using a diquark picture. This approximation allows a correct treatment of the confinement, assumed here to be similar to a junction. With only color antitriplet diquarks, the mass of the pentaquark candidate with positive parity is found around 2.2 GeV. It is shown that, if a color sextet diquark is present, the lowest pentaquark is characterized by a much smaller mass with a negative parity. A mass below 1.7 GeV is computed if the masses of the color antitriplet and color sextet diquarks are taken similar.
- Received 20 August 2004
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.062001
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