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Hadronic Molecular States Composed of Heavy Flavor Baryons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2012-07-25 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We investigate the possible molecules composed of two heavy flavor baryons such as "AQBQA_QB_Q"(Q=b, c) within the one-pion-exchange model (OPE). Our results indicate that the long-range π\pi exchange force is strong enough to form molecules such as [ΣQΞQ]S=1I=1/2[\Sigma_Q\Xi_Q^{'}]^{I=1/2}_{S=1}(Q=b, c), [ΣQΛQ]S=1I=1[\Sigma_Q\Lambda_Q]^{I=1}_{S=1}(Q=b, c), [ΣbΞb]S=1I=3/2[\Sigma_b\Xi_b^{'}]^{I=3/2}_{S=1} and [ΞbΞb]S=1I=0[\Xi_b\Xi^{'}_b]^{I=0}_{S=1} where the S-D mixing plays an important role. In contrast, the π\pi exchange does not form the spin-singlet AQBQA_QB_Q bound states. If we consider the heavier scalar and vector meson exchanges as well as the pion exchange, some loosely bound spin-singlet S-wave states appear while results of the spin-triplet AQBQA_QB_Q system does not change significantly, which implies the pion exchange plays an dominant role in forming the spin-triplet molecules. Moreover, we perform an extensive coupled channel analysis of the ΛQΛQ\Lambda_Q\Lambda_Q system within the OPE and one-boson-exchange (OBE) framework and find that there exist loosely bound states of ΛQΛQ\Lambda_Q\Lambda_Q(Q=b,c) with quantum numbers I(JP)=0(0+)I(J^P)=0(0^+), 0(0)0(0^-) and 0(1)0(1^-). The binding solutions of ΛQΛQ\Lambda_Q\Lambda_Q system mainly come from the coupled-channel effect in the flavor space. Besides the OPE force, the medium- and short-range attractive force also plays a significant role in the formation of the loosely bound ΛcΛc\Lambda_c\Lambda_c and ΛbΛb\Lambda_b\Lambda_b states. Once produced, they will be very stable because such a system decays via weak interaction with a very long lifetime around 1013101210^{-13}\sim10^{-12}s.

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@article{arxiv.1204.3364,
  title  = {Hadronic Molecular States Composed of Heavy Flavor Baryons},
  author = {Ning Li and Shi-Lin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3364},
  year   = {2012}
}

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