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On the possibility of Deeply Bound Hadronic Molecules from single Pion Exchange

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-22 v2

Abstract

Pion exchange in S-wave between hadrons that are themselves in a relative S-wave can shift energies by hundreds of MeV. In the case of charmed mesons D,D,D0,D1D,D^*,D_0,D_1 a spectroscopy of quasi-molecular states may arise consistent with enigmatic charmonium states observed above 4 GeV in e+ee^+e^- annihilation. A possible explanation of Y(4260)ψππY(4260)\to \psi\pi\pi and Y(4360)ψππY(4360) \to \psi'\pi\pi is found. Searches in DDˉ3πD\bar{D}3\pi channels as well as B decays are recommended to test this hypothesis.

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@article{arxiv.0905.2687,
  title  = {On the possibility of Deeply Bound Hadronic Molecules from single Pion Exchange},
  author = {Frank Close and Clark Downum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2687},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 1 figure. Version accepted to PRL. Equation 3 of v1 of this paper was wrong and has been taken into account in this version. Other minor typos corrected... conclusions unchanged

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