Investigation of quark distributions in a family of pentaquarks using the Thomas–Fermi quark model

Abstract

Abstract Using the Thomas–Fermi quark model, a collective, spherically symmetric density of states is created to represent a gas of interacting fermions with various degeneracies at zero temperature. Over a family of pentaquarks, uudc c ¯ , color interaction probabilities were obtained after averaging over all the possible configurations. Three different functions are developed for light, charm, and anti-charm quarks and are assumed to be linearly related by some proportionality constants. Interesting patterns of quark distributions are observed while analyzing the quark function consistency conditions for such constants.