English

Charmonium states in a coupled-channel model

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-08-16 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We systematically investigate the mass spectrum and two-body open-charm strong decays of charmonium states in a coupled-channel model where the 3P0^3P_0 quark-antiquark pair creation mechanism is employed. The results of masses, mass shifts, proportions of the ccˉc\bar{c} component, and open-charm decay widths are provided. The SS-DD wave mixing angles and di-electric decay widths for vector mesons are also presented. Based on our results, we find that the ψ(3770)\psi(3770), ψ(4040)\psi(4040), ψ(4160)\psi(4160), ψ(4360)\psi(4360), and ψ(4415)\psi(4415) can be assigned as the 13D11^3D_1-, 33S13^3S_1-, 23D12^3D_1-, 43S14^3S_1-, and 33D13^3D_1-dominated charmonium states, respectively. The ψ3(3842)\psi_3(3842) is a good candidate of the ψ3(1D)\psi_3(1D) charmonium state. The calculated mass and strong decay width of χc1(2P)\chi_{c1}(2P) with significant continuum contribution (\sim57\%) favor the charmonium interpretation for the mysterious χc1(3872)\chi_{c1}(3872). When considering the large uncertainty in the observed decay width, the possibility to assign the χc0(3860)\chi_{c0}(3860) as the χc0(2P)\chi_{c0}(2P) charmonium state cannot be ruled out. One may describe well the properties of χc2(3930)\chi_{c2}(3930) with the χc2(2P)\chi_{c2}(2P) charmonium. The predictions on properties of other ccˉc\bar{c} states can be tested by future experiments.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.02765,
  title  = {Charmonium states in a coupled-channel model},
  author = {Zi-Long Man and Cheng-Rui Shu and Yan-Rui Liu and Hong Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02765},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

19 pages,1 figure, 12 tables

R2 v1 2026-06-28T14:38:09.440Z