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Looking for a hidden-charm pentaquark state with strangeness $S=-1$ from $\Xi^-_b$ decay into $J/\psi K^- \Lambda$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-22 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Assuming that the recently observed hidden-charm pentaquark state, Pc(4450)P_c(4450), is of molecular nature as predicted in the unitary approach, we propose to study the decay of ΞbJ/ψKΛ\Xi^-_b\rightarrow J/\psi K^- \Lambda to search for the strangeness counterpart of the Pc(4450)P_c(4450). There are three ingredients in the decay mechanism: the weak decay mechanism, the hadronization mechanism, and the finite state interactions in the meson-baryon system of strangeness S=2S=-2 and isospin I=1/2I=1/2 and of the J/ψΛJ/\psi\Lambda. All these have been tested extensively. As a result, we provide a genuine prediction of the differential cross section where a strangeness hidden-charm pentaquark state, the counterpart of the Pc(4450)P_c(4450), can be clearly seen. The decay rate is estimated to be of similar magnitude as the Λb0J/ψKp\Lambda_b^0\rightarrow J/\psi K^- p observed by the LHCb collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01803,
  title  = {Looking for a hidden-charm pentaquark state with strangeness $S=-1$ from $\Xi^-_b$ decay into $J/\psi K^- \Lambda$},
  author = {Hua-Xing Chen and Li-Sheng Geng and Wei-Hong Liang and Eulogio Oset and En Wang and Ju-Jun Xie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01803},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures; typos corrected