# The 35th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory

18-24 June 2017
Palacio de Congresos
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Andalucía II

# Sanity check for $NN$ bound states in lattice QCD with L¥"uscher's finite volume formula

## Speakers

• Prof. Sinya AOKI

## Content

On the basis of the L¥"uscher's finite volume formula, a simple test (sanity check) is introduced and applied to inspect the recent claims of the existence of the nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) bound state(s) for heavy quark masses in lattice QCD. We show that the consistency between the scattering phase shifts at $k^2 > 0$ and/or $k^2 < 0$ obtained from the lattice data and the behavior of phase shifts from the effective range expansion (ERE) around $k^2=0$ exposes the validity of the original lattice data, otherwise such information is hidden in the energy shift $¥Delta E$ of the two nucleons on the lattice. We carry out this sanity check for all the lattice results in the literature claiming the existence of the $NN$ bound state(s) for heavy quark masses, and find that (i) some of the $NN$ data show clear inconsistency between the behavior of ERE at $k^2 > 0$ and that at $k^2 < 0$, (ii) some of the $NN$ data exhibit singular behavior of the low energy parameter (such as the divergent effective range) at $k^2<0$, (iii) some of the $NN$ data have the unphysical residue for the bound state pole in S-matrix, (iv) the rest of the $NN$ data are inconsistent among themselves. Our finding, together with the fake plateau problem previously pointed out by the present authors,brings a serious doubt on the existence of the $NN$ bound states for pion masses heavier than 300 MeV in the previous studies.