title: Understanding pentaquark States in QCD.
abstract: We estimate the mass of the pentaquark state with QCD sum rules and find that pentaquark states with isospin I=0,1,2 lie close to each other around (1.55+/-0.15) GeV. The experimentally observed baryon resonance Theta(+)(1540) with S=+1 can be consistently identified as a pentaquark state if its J(P)=1 / 2(-). Such a state is expected in QCD. If its parity is positive, this pentaquark state is really exotic. The outstanding issue now is to determine its quantum numbers experimentally.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
authors.forename: Shi-Lin
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Zhu