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Interpretation of excited $\Omega_b$ signals

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-07-22 v3

Abstract

Recently LHCb reported the discovery of four extremely narrow excited Ωb\Omega_b baryons decaying into Ξb0K\Xi_b^0 K^-. We interpret these baryons as bound states of a bb-quark and a PP-wave ssss-diquark. For such a system there are exactly five possible combinations of spin and orbital angular momentum. We predict two of spin 1/2, two of spin 3/2, and one of spin 5/2, all with negative parity. We favor identifying the observed states as those those with spins 1/2 and 3/2, and give a range of predicted masses for the one with spin 5/2. We update earlier predictions for these states based on the five narrow excited Ωc\Omega_c states reported by LHCb. An alternative picture of the states in which one of J=1/2J=1/2 is extremely wide and hence not seen by LHCb is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.2005.12424,
  title  = {Interpretation of excited $\Omega_b$ signals},
  author = {Marek Karliner and Jonathan L. Rosner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12424},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

12 pages, 1 figure. Version including proof corrections to be published in Phys. Rev. D