Toward the quark mass dependence of from lattice QCD
Sara Collins (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany); Alexey Nefediev (Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia, CeFEMA, Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal); M. Padmanath (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Chennai 600113, India); Sasa Prelovsek (Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia)
The scattering phase shifts in the channel are extracted from lattice QCD for five different charm quark masses and a fixed light-quark mass corresponding to . The phase shifts are analyzed employing two approaches: effective range expansion and Lippmann-Schwinger equation derived in the effective field theory. In the latter case, the results imply an attraction at short range parametrized by contact terms and a slight repulsion at long range mediated by one-pion exchange with . The poles in the amplitude across the complex energy plane are extracted and their trajectories are discussed as the charm quark mass is varied. Two complex conjugate poles corresponding to a resonance below threshold are found for close to the physical value. They turn into a pair of virtual states at the largest studied. With further increasing , one virtual pole representing is expected to move towards the two-body threshold and turn into a bound state. The light-quark mass dependence of the pole is briefly discussed using the data on scattering from other lattice collaborations.