Abstract

Recent lattice QCD calculations showed that a d(N Omega) similar to the deuteron with baryon number B = 2 and with a small binding energy might exist. In this work we propose a hadronic molecular approach to study the dynamical properties of this exotic state. We employed a phenomenological Lagrangian approach to describe the coupling of the d(N Omega) to its constituents and the strong decays into conventional hadrons, d(N Omega) -> A Xi and d(N Omega) -> Sigma Xi. Predictions for the sum of the decay rates are in the range of a few hundred keV. In addition, we find that the d(N Omega) -> Sigma Xi mode is dominant, preferably searched for in a future Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) experiment.