Enigmatic properties of $Ξ(1620)$ and $Ξ(1690)$

Abstract

Motivated by a considerable release of data on first two excited states of the doubly strange baryon, $Ξ(1620)$ and $Ξ(1690)$, from different experimental collaborations in recent years, we investigate meson-baryon interactions in a coupled-channel approach. The systems are composed of pseudoscalar and vector mesons and the calculations are done for the total spin 1/2 and isospin 1/2 configuration. The tree-level interactions are deduced from Lagrangians based on chiral and hidden local symmetries. Specifically, we make an attempt to describe (1) data on the $K^-Λ$ femtoscopic correlation function coming from $p\,p$ and $Pb\,Pb$ collisions, and (2) the available data on invariant mass distributions for different systems: $πΞ$, $\bar K Σ$ and $\bar K Λ$. We find that the amplitude which yields the correlation function close to the data results in mass distributions of different meson-baryon systems that are in discordance with the experimental data and vice-versa.