Baryon-Baryon Interactions in the Flavor SU(3) Limit from Full QCD Simulations on the Lattice

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We investigate baryon-baryon (BB) interactions in the 3-flavor full QCD simulations with degenerate quark masses for all flavors.

• The BB potentials in the orbital S-wave are extracted from the Nambu-Bethe-Salpeter wave functions measured on the lattice.
• We observe strong flavor-spin dependences of the BB potentials at short distances.
• In particular, a strong repulsive core exists in the flavor-octet and spin-singlet channel (the 8_s representation), while an attractive core appears in the flavor singlet channel (the 1 representation).