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New Exotic Meson and Baryon Resonances from Doubly-Heavy Hadronic Molecules

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-09-23 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We predict several new exotic doubly-heavy hadronic resonances, inferring from the observed exotic bottomonium-like and charmonium-like narrow states X(3872)X(3872), Zb(10610)Z_b(10610), Zb(10650)Z_b(10650), Zc(3900)Z_c(3900), and Zc(4020/4025)Z_c(4020/4025). We interpret the binding mechanism as mostly molecular-like isospin-exchange attraction between two heavy-light mesons in a relative S-wave state. We then generalize it to other systems containing two heavy hadrons which can couple through isospin exchange. The new predicted states include resonances in meson-meson, meson-baryon, baryon-baryon, and baryon-antibaryon channels. These include those giving rise to final states involving a heavy quark Q=c,bQ=c,b and antiquark Qˉ=cˉ,bˉ\bar Q' = \bar c,\bar b, namely DDˉD \bar D^*, DDˉD^* \bar D^*, DBD^* B^*, BˉB\bar B B^*, BˉB\bar B^* B^*, ΣcDˉ\Sigma_c \bar D^*, ΣcB\Sigma_c B^*, ΣbDˉ\Sigma_b \bar D^*, ΣbB\Sigma_b B^*, ΣcΣˉc\Sigma_c \bar \Sigma_c, ΣcΛˉc\Sigma_c \bar \Lambda_c, ΣcΛˉb\Sigma_c \bar \Lambda_b, ΣbΣˉb\Sigma_b \bar \Sigma_b, ΣbΛˉb\Sigma_b \bar \Lambda_b, and ΣbΛˉc\Sigma_b \bar \Lambda_c, as well as corresponding S-wave states giving rise to QQQ Q' or QˉQˉ\bar Q \bar Q'.

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@article{arxiv.1506.06386,
  title  = {New Exotic Meson and Baryon Resonances from Doubly-Heavy Hadronic Molecules},
  author = {Marek Karliner and Jonathan L. Rosner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.06386},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

8 pages, no figures, additional text and references, to be published in Phys. Rev. Letters