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Mass Spectrum of Heavy Quarkonium Hybrids

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-12-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We have extended the calculation of the correlation functions of heavy quarkonium hybrid operators with various JPCJ^{PC} quantum numbers to include QCD condensates up to dimension six. In contrast to previous analyses which were unable to optimize the QCD sum-rules for certain JPCJ^{PC}, recent work has shown that inclusion of dimension six condensates stabilizes the hybrid sum-rules and permits reliable mass predictions. In this work we have investigated the effects of the dimension six condensates on the remaining channels. After performing the QCD sum-rule analysis, we update the mass spectra of charmonium and bottomonium hybrids with exotic and non-exotic quantum numbers. We identify that the negative-parity states with JPC=(0,1,2)+,1J^{PC}=(0, 1, 2)^{-+}, 1^{--} form the lightest hybrid supermultiplet while the positive-parity states with JPC=(0,1)+,(0,1,2)++J^{PC}=(0, 1)^{+-}, (0, 1, 2)^{++} belong to a heavier hybrid supermultiplet, confirming the supermultiplet structure found in other approaches. The hybrid with JPC=0J^{PC}=0^{--} has a much higher mass which may suggest a different excitation of the gluonic field compared to other channels. In agreement with previous results, we find that the JPC=1++J^{PC}=1^{++} charmonium hybrid is substantially heavier than the X(3872), which seems to preclude a pure charmonium hybrid interpretation for this state.

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@article{arxiv.1304.4522,
  title  = {Mass Spectrum of Heavy Quarkonium Hybrids},
  author = {Wei Chen and R. T. Kleiv and T. G. Steele and B. Bulthuis and D. Harnett and J. Ho and T. Richards and Shi-Lin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.4522},
  year   = {2013}
}

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17 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables