https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10695-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Compositeness of S-wave weakly-bound states from next-to-leading order Weinberg’s relations
Instituto de Física Corpuscular (centro mixto CSIC-UV), Institutos de Investigación de Paterna, C/Catedrático José Beltrán 2, 46980, Paterna, Valencia, Spain
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Miguel.Albaladejo@ific.uv.es
Received:
20
June
2022
Accepted:
9
August
2022
Published online:
19
August
2022
We discuss a model-independent estimator of the likelihood of the compositeness of a shallow S-wave bound or virtual state. The approach is based on an extension of Weinberg’s relations in Weinberg (Phys Rev 137:B672, 1965) and it relies only on the proximity of the energy of the state to the two-hadron threshold to which it significantly couples. The scheme only makes use of the experimental scattering length and the effective range low energy parameters, and it is shown to be fully consistent for predominantly molecular hadrons. As explicit applications, we analyse the case of the deuteron, the 
nucleon-nucleon virtual state and the exotic 
, and find strong support to the molecular interpretation in all cases. Results are less conclusive for the , since the binding energy of this state would be significantly higher than that of the deuteron, and the approach employed here is at the limit of its applicability. We also qualitatively address the case of the recently discovered 
state, within the isospin limit to avoid the complexity of the very close thresholds 
and 
, which could mask the ingredients of the approach proposed in this work.
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