Is X(3872) {\sl Really} a Molecular State?
Abstract
After taking into account both the pion and sigma meson exchange potential, we have performed a dynamical calculation of the system. The meson exchange potential is repulsive from heavy quark symmetry and numerically important for a loosely bound system. Our analysis disfavors the interpretation of X(3872) as a loosely bound molecular state if we use the experimental coupling constant and a reasonable cutoff around 1 GeV, which is the typical hadronic scale. Bound state solutions with negative eigenvalues for the system exist only with either a very large coupling constant (two times of the experimental value) or a large cutoff ( GeV or GeV). In contrast, there probably exists a loosely bound S-wave molecular state. Once produced, such a molecular state would be rather stable since its dominant decay mode is the radiative decay through . Experimental search of these states will be very interesting.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0801.3540,
title = {Is X(3872) {\sl Really} a Molecular State?},
author = {Yan-Rui Liu and Xiang Liu and Wei-Zhen Deng and Shi-Lin Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.3540},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
11 pages, 7 figures, 9 tables. The version to appear in EPJC