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Heavy quark symmetry in multi-hadron systems

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-03-05 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We discuss the properties of hadronic systems containing one heavy quark in the heavy quark limit. The heavy quark symmetry guarantees the mass degeneracy of the states with total spin and parity (j1/2)P(j-1/2)^{P} and (j+1/2)P(j+1/2)^{P} with j1/2j \geq 1/2, because the heavy-quark spin is decoupled from the total spin jj of the light components called brown muck. We apply this idea to heavy multi-hadron systems, and formulate the general framework to analyze their properties. We demonstrate explicitly the spin degeneracy and the decomposition of the wave functions in exotic heavy hadron systems generated by the one boson exchange potential. The masses of the brown muck can be extracted from theoretical and experimental hadron spectra, leading to the color non-singlet spectroscopy.

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@article{arxiv.1402.5222,
  title  = {Heavy quark symmetry in multi-hadron systems},
  author = {Y. Yamaguchi and S. Ohkoda and A. Hosaka and T. Hyodo and S. Yasui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5222},
  year   = {2015}
}

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65 pages, 6 figures

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