New way to produce dense double-antikaonic dibaryon system, .YEN..YEN.bar{K}.YEN..YEN.bar{K}NN, through .LAMBDA.(1405)-doorway sticking in p + p collisions

Abstract

A recent successful observation of a dense and deeply bound K nuclear system, K-pp, in the p+p→K++K-pp reaction in a DISTO experiment indicates that the double-K dibaryon, K-K-pp, which was predicted to be a dense nuclear system, can also be formed in p+p collisions. We find theoretically that the K--K- repulsion plays no significant role in reducing the density and binding energy of K-K-pp and that, when two Λ(1405) resonances are produced simultaneously in a short-range p+p collision, they act as doorways to copious formation of K-K-pp, if and only if K-K-pp is a dense object, as predicted.