QCD sum rules for nucleon-nucleon and hyperon-nucleon interactions Original Research Article

The QCD sum rules for spin-dependent nucleon-nucleon (N N) and hyperon-nucleon (Y N) interactions are formulated and their physical implications are clarified. A dispersion integral around the nucleon threshold can be identified as a measure of interaction strength. Calculating the operator product expansion (OPE) of the correlation function, we have found that the spin-dependent operators are related to the axial and tensor charges. The obtained sum rules relate the interaction strengths to the nucleon matrix elements of the quark-gluon operators. The spin-dependent parts are smaller than the spin-independent parts in the N N and the Y N channels. The spin-independent N N interaction strength is greater than the spin-independent Y N interaction strengths. The results are consistent with the empirical result in the N N channel.