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Is the existence of a $J/\psi J/\psi$ bound state plausible?

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-10-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

In a recent measurement LHCb reported pronounced structures in the J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi spectrum. One of the various possible explanations of those is that they emerge from non-perturbative interactions of vector charmonia. It is thus important to understand whether it is possible to form a bound state of two charmonia interacting through the exchange of gluons, which hadronise into two pions at the longest distance. In this paper, we demonstrate that, given our current understanding of hadron-hadron interactions, the exchange of correlated light mesons (pions and kaons) is able to provide sizeable attraction to the di-J/ψJ/\psi system, and it is possible for two J/ψJ/\psi mesons to form a bound state. As a side result we find from an analysis of the data for the ψ(2S)J/ψππ\psi(2S)\to J/\psi \pi\pi transition including both ππ\pi\pi and KKˉK\bar K final state interactions an improved value for the ψ(2S)J/ψ\psi(2S)\to J/\psi transition chromo-electric polarisability: αψ(2S)J/ψ=(1.8±0.1) \mboxGeV3|\alpha_{\psi(2S)J/\psi}|= (1.8\pm 0.1)~\mbox{GeV}^{-3}, where the uncertainty also includes the one induced by the final state interactions.

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@article{arxiv.2107.03946,
  title  = {Is the existence of a $J/\psi J/\psi$ bound state plausible?},
  author = {Xiang-Kun Dong and Vadim Baru and Feng-Kun Guo and Christoph Hanhart and Alexey Nefediev and Bing-Song Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03946},
  year   = {2021}
}

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11 pages, 7 figures, version to appear in Sci. Bull