Dynamical study of the pentaquark antidecuplet

Dynamical calculations are performed for all isomultiplets of the flavour antidecuplet to which the newly discovered pentaquark Theta(+) belongs. The framework is a constituent quark model where the short-range interaction has a flavour-spin structure. In this model the lowest pentaquarks have positive parity. Each antidecuplet member is described by a variational solution with the Pauli principle properly taken into account. By fitting the mass of Theta(+) of minimal content uudd, the mass of Xi(--), of minimal content ddss (u) over bar, is predicted at approximately 1960 MeV. The influence of the octet-antidecuplet mixing on the masses of the Y = I and 0 pentaquarks is considered within the same model and the role of the hyperfine interaction in this mixing is pointed out. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.