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Do $1^- c \bar c g$ hybrid meson exist, do they mix with charmonium ?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

Hybrid ccˉg c \bar c g of quantum numbers 11^{--} are considered in a quark model with constituant quarks and gluon. The lowest JP=1J^P=1^- states may be built in two ways, lg=1l_g=1 (gluon excited) corresponding to an angular momentum between the gluon and the ccˉc \bar c system, while lccˉ=1l_{c\bar c}=1 (quark excited) corresponds to an angular momentum between the cc and the cˉ\bar c. The lowest lying hybrid JP=1J^P=1^- state in the flux tube model is similar to the lg=1l_g=1 in the quark-gluon model. In particular it verifies the selection rule that it cannot decay into two fundamental mesons. The lqqˉ=1l_{q\bar q}=1 hybrid may decay into two fundamental mesons, but with decay widths larger than 1 GeV, which tells that they do not really exist as resonant states. Using a chromoharmonic potential, we find no mixing between the lg=1l_g=1 and lccˉ=1l_{c\bar c}=1. More realistic potentials might induce a strong mixing between them, implying that no hybrid meson exist. If, on the contrary, such a strong mixing does not occur, we find, in agreement with the flux tube model, that only the lg=1l_g=1 appears as a real resonant state. In such a case, hybrid mesons may exist as resonances only if they are decoupled from the ground state channels, which explains the difficulty to observe them experimentally. We reconsider accordingly the Ono-Close-Page scenario of mixing between charmonium and charmed-hybrid to explain the anomalies around 4.1 GeV. We find a very small mixing between radially excited charmonium and hybrid mesons, which forbids considering the ψ(4.040)\psi(4.040) and ψ(4.160)\psi(4.160) as combinations of 3S charmonium and lg=1l_g=1 hybrid meson with a large mixing.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9803470,
  title  = {Do $1^- c \bar c g$ hybrid meson exist, do they mix with charmonium ?},
  author = {F. Iddir and S. Safir O. Pène},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9803470},
  year   = {2008}
}

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