Neutron resonance in high-Tc superconductors is not the p particle

We discuss the interplay of particle-particle and particle-hole spin-triplet channels in high-Tc superconductors using a quasiparticle dispersion motivated by angle-resolved photoemission. Within a generalized randomphase approximation, we find a well-defined antibound state of two holes, the p resonance of Demler and Zhang, as well as a bound state of a particle and a hole, the spin exciton. We show that the energy of the p resonance always exceeds 2D , twice the maximum d-wave gap, therefore the neutron resonance observed in the cuprates around energy D is most likely a spin exciton. At the same time, we speculate that the p particle can exist at higher energies and might be observed in neutron scattering around 100 meV.