Theoretical predictions for the spectrum of heavy meson-baryon bound states are a fundamental tool for disentangling the nature of the different pentaquark states that have been observed in experimental facilities. Here we explore this spectrum in a phenomenological model that describes the heavy meson-baryon interaction in terms of a contact-range interaction, where the coupling strength is saturated by the exchange of light scalar and vector mesons, i.e. σ, ρ and ω exchanges. Saturation determines the couplings modulo an unknown proportionality constant that can be calibrated from a molecular candidate. If we use the PψN(4312) as input, we predict a series of molecular pentaquarks including the PψN(4440) and PψN(4457), the recent PψsΛ(4338) and the PψsΛ(4459).
@article{arxiv.2211.08211,
title = {Molecular $P_{\psi}$ pentaquarks from light-meson exchange saturation},
author = {Zi-Ying Yang and Fang-Zheng Peng and Mao-Jun Yan and Mario Sánchez Sánchez and Manuel Pavon Valderrama},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.08211},
year = {2025}
}
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15 pages, 7 tables, 1 figure; corresponds to published version