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$K^*$ mesons with hidden charm arising from $KX(3872)$ and $KZ_c(3900)$ dynamics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-09-26 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Inspired by the recent discovery of the pentaquark states Pc(4450)P_c(4450) and Pc(4380)P_c(4380), which can be viewed as excited nucleon states with hidden charm, we study the three-body interaction of a kaon and a pair of DDˉD\bar{D}^* in isospin 0 and 1. We show that the two body interactions stringently constrained by the existence of the Ds0(2317)D_{s0}^*(2317), Ds1(2460)D^*_{s1}(2460), X(3872)X(3872), and Zc(3900)Z_c(3900), which are widely believed to contain large DKDK, DKD^* K, and DDˉD\bar{D}^* components, inevitably lead to the existence of a heavy KK^* meson with hidden charm. Concrete coupled channel three-body calculations yield its mass and width as (4307±2)i(9±2)(4307\pm 2)- i (9\pm 2) MeV with I(JP)=1/2(1)I(J^P)=1/2(1^-). This state, if found experimentally, definitely cannot be accommodated in a qqˉq\bar{q} picture, and therefore presents a clear case of an exotic hadron.

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@article{arxiv.1805.08330,
  title  = {$K^*$ mesons with hidden charm arising from $KX(3872)$ and $KZ_c(3900)$ dynamics},
  author = {Xiu-Lei Ren and Brenda B. Malabarba and Li-Sheng Geng and K. P. Khemchandani and A. Martinez Torres},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1805.08330},
  year   = {2018}
}

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