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Pentaquarks with hidden charm as hadroquarkonia

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-02-14 v3

Abstract

We consider hidden charm pentaquarks as hadroquarkonium states in a QCD inspired approach. Pentaquarks arise naturally as bound states of quarkonia excitations and ordinary baryons. The LHCb Pc(4450)P_c(4450) pentaquark is interpreted as a ψ\psi'-nucleon bound state with spin-parity JP=3/2J^P=3/2^-. The partial decay width Γ(Pc(4450)J/ψ+N)11\Gamma(P_c(4450)\to J/\psi+N)\approx 11 MeV is calculated and turned out to be in agreement with the experimental data for Pc(4450)P_c(4450). The Pc(4450)P_c(4450) pentaquark is predicted to be a member of one of the two almost degenerate hidden-charm baryon octets with spin-parities JP=1/2,3/2J^{P}=1/2^-,3/2^-. The masses and decay widths of the octet pentaquarks are calculated. The widths are small and comparable with the width of the Pc(4450)P_c(4450) pentaquark, and the masses of the octet pentaquarks satisfy the Gell-Mann-Okubo relation. Interpretation of pentaquarks as loosely bound ΣcDˉ\Sigma_c\bar D^* and ΣcDˉ\Sigma_c^*\bar D^* deuteronlike states is also considered. We determine quantum numbers of these bound states and calculate their masses in the one-pion exchange scenario. The hadroquarkonium and molecular approaches to exotic hadrons are compared and the relative advantages and drawbacks of each approach are discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1709.09523,
  title  = {Pentaquarks with hidden charm as hadroquarkonia},
  author = {Michael I. Eides and Victor Yu. Petrov and Maxim V. Polyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.09523},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

33 pages, 2 figures, 3, tables; Minor changes, 2 references added; Version published in Eur. Phys. J. C