Continuum limit of baryon-baryon scattering with SU(3) flavor symmetry

Abstract

We report a study of the scattering of two octet baryons using lattice QCD. The baryon-baryon spectrum is computed using distillation on eight lattice ensembles spanning six lattice spacings and multiple volumes, all at the SU(3) flavor symmetric point with $m_\pi=m_K\approx 420$ MeV. Using finite-volume quantization conditions, we determine the scattering phase shift and the presence of bound states. Focusing on the $H$ dibaryon, our results show large discretization effects: in the continuum, the binding energy is $B_H=4.56\pm1.13\pm0.63$ MeV, whereas on our coarsest lattice spacing this is larger by a factor of about 7.5. We also present preliminary results for a $D$-wave phase shift and for the spectrum in the nucleon-nucleon ${}^1S_0$ channel.