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Prediction of a narrow exotic hadronic state with quantum numbers $J^{PC}=0^{--}$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-09-02 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Lots of charmonium-like structures have been observed in the last two decades. Most of them have quantum numbers that can be formed by a pair of charm and anticharm quarks, thus it is difficult to unambiguously identify the exotic ones among them. In this Letter, by exploiting heavy quark spin symmetry, we present a robust prediction of the hadronic molecular scenario, where the ψ(4230),ψ(4360)\psi(4230),\psi(4360) and ψ(4415)\psi(4415) are identified as DDˉ1,DDˉ1D\bar D_1,D^*\bar D_1 and DDˉ2D^*\bar D^*_2 bound states, respectively. We show that a flavor-neutral charmonium-like exotic state with quantum numbers JPC=0J^{PC}=0^{--}, denoted as ψ0(4360)\psi_0(4360), should exist as a DDˉ1D^*\bar D_1 bound state. The mass and width of the ψ0(4360)\psi_0(4360)} are predicted to be (4366±18)(4366\pm18) MeV and less than 10 MeV, respectively. The ψ0(4360)\psi_0(4360) is significant in two folds: no 00^{--} hadron has been observed so far, and a study of this state will enlighten the understanding of the mysterious vector mesons between 4.2 and 4.5 GeV, as well as the nature of previously observed exotic ZcZ_c and PcP_c states. We propose that such an exotic state can be searched for in e+eηψ0(4360)e^+e^-\to \eta \psi_0(4360) and uniquely identified by measuring the angular distribution of the outgoing η\eta meson.

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@article{arxiv.2205.10994,
  title  = {Prediction of a narrow exotic hadronic state with quantum numbers $J^{PC}=0^{--}$},
  author = {Teng Ji and Xiang-Kun Dong and Feng-Kun Guo and Bing-Song Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.10994},
  year   = {2022}
}

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7+3 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables; version to be appeared in PRL