S-wave kaon-nucleon potentials with all-to-all propagators in the HAL QCD method

Abstract

Employing an all-to-all quark propagator technique, we investigate kaon-nucleon interactions in lattice QCD. We calculate the S-wave kaon-nucleon potentials at the leading order in the derivative expansion in the time-dependent HAL QCD method, using (2+1)-flavor gauge configurations on 323 ×64 lattices with lattice spacing a ≈ 0.09 fm and pion mass mπ≈ 570MeV. We take the one-end trick for all-to-all propagators, which allows us to put the zero-momentum hadron operators at both source and sink and to smear quark operators at the source. We find a stronger repulsive interaction in the I = 1 channel than in the I = 0. The phase shifts obtained by solving the Schrödinger equations with the potentials qualitatively reproduce the energy dependence of the experimental phase shifts, and have similar behavior to previous results from lattice QCD without all-to-all propagators. Our study demonstrates that the all-to-all quark propagator technique with the one-end trick is useful for studying interactions in meson-baryon systems in the HAL QCD method, so we will apply it to meson-baryon systems which contain quark-antiquark creation/annihilation processes in our future studies.