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Charged charmonium-like Z+(4430) from rescattering in conventional B decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-07-08 v3

Abstract

In a previous paper we suggested an explanation for the peak designated as Z(4430)+Z(4430)^+ in the ψπ+\psi^\prime\pi^+ mass spectrum, observed by Belle in  ⁣Bˉψπ+K{\bar{\!B}} \to {\psi^\prime} \pi^+ K decays, as an effect of  ⁣Dˉ0D+ψπ+\bar{\!D}{}^{\,*0}D^{\,+} \to \psi^\prime\pi^+ rescattering in the decays  ⁣BˉDsD{\bar{\!B}} \to {D_{s}^{\,\prime -}} {D}, where the DsD_{s}^{\,\prime -} is an as-yet unobserved radial excitation of the pseudoscalar ground state DsD_{s}^{\,-}-meson. In this paper, we demonstrate that this hypothesis provides an explanation of the double Z+Z^+-like peaking structures, which were studied by LHCb with much higher statistics. While according to our hypothesis, the origin of the peaking structures is purely kinematical, reflecting the presence of a conventional resonance in the hidden intermediate state, the amplitude of the Z(4430)+Z(4430)^+ peak carries a Breit-Wigner-like complex phase, arising from the intermediate DsD_{s}^{\,\prime -} resonance. Thus, our hypothesis is entirely consistent with the recent LHCb measurement of the resonant-like amplitude behaviour of the Z(4430)+Z(4430)^+. We perform a toy fit to the LHCb data, which illustrates that our approach is also consistent with all the observed structure in the LHCb M(ψπ+)M({{\psi^\prime}\pi^+}) spectrum. We suggest a critical test of our hypothesis that can be performed experimentally.

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@article{arxiv.1408.5295,
  title  = {Charged charmonium-like Z+(4430) from rescattering in conventional B decays},
  author = {P. Pakhlov and T. Uglov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.5295},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 5 figures