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Excited $K$ meson, $K_c(4180)$, with hidden charm as a $D\bar{D}K$ bound state

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-03-03 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Motivated by the recent discovery of two new states in the B+D+DK+B^+\rightarrow D^+D^-K^+ decay by the LHCb Collaboration, we study the DDˉKD\bar{D}K three-body system by solving the Schr\"odinger equation with the Gaussian Expansion Method. We show that the DDˉKD\bar{D}K system can bind with quantum numbers I(JP)=12(0)I(J^P)=\frac{1}{2}(0^-) and a binding energy of B3(DDˉK)=48.92.4+1.4B_3(D\bar{D}K)=48.9^{+1.4}_{-2.4} MeV. It can decay into J/ψKJ/\psi K and DsDˉD_s\bar{D}^* via triangle diagrams, yielding a partial decay width of about 1 MeV. As a result, if discovered, it will serve as a highly nontrivial check on the nature of the many exotic hadrons discovered so far and on non-perturbative QCD as well. Assuming heavy quark spin symmetry, the same formalism is applied to study the DDˉKD\bar{D}^*K system, which is shown to also bind with quantum numbers I(JP)=12(1)I(J^P)=\frac{1}{2}(1^-) and a binding energy of B3(DDˉK)77.36.6+3.1B_3(D\bar{D}^*K)\simeq 77.3^{+3.1}_{-6.6} MeV, consistent with the results of previous works.

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@article{arxiv.2012.01134,
  title  = {Excited $K$ meson, $K_c(4180)$, with hidden charm as a $D\bar{D}K$ bound state},
  author = {Tian-Wei Wu and Ming-Zhu Liu and Li-Sheng Geng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01134},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, 3 figures