Inspired by the recent discovery of the pentaquark states Pc(4450) and Pc(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 DDˉ∗ in isospin 0 and 1. We show that the two body interactions stringently constrained by the existence of the Ds0∗(2317), Ds1∗(2460), X(3872), and Zc(3900), which are widely believed to contain large DK, D∗K, and DDˉ∗ components, inevitably lead to the existence of a heavy K∗ meson with hidden charm. Concrete coupled channel three-body calculations yield its mass and width as (4307±2)−i(9±2) MeV with I(JP)=1/2(1−). This state, if found experimentally, definitely cannot be accommodated in a qqˉ picture, and therefore presents a clear case of an exotic hadron.
@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}
}