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Probing the long-range structure of the $T_{cc}^+$ with the strong and electromagnetic decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-10-04 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Very recently, the LHCb Collaboration reported the doubly charmed tetraquark state Tcc+T_{cc}^+ below the D+D0D^{*+}D^0 threshold about 273273 keV. As a very near-threshold state, its long-distance structure is very important. In the molecular scheme, we relate the coupling constants of Tcc+T_{cc}^+ with D0D+D^{*0}D^+ and D+D0D^{*+}D^0 to its binding energy and mixing angle of two components with a coupled-channel effective field theory. With the coupling constants, we investigate the kinetically allowed strong decays Tcc+D0D0π+T_{cc}^+\to D^0D^0\pi^+, Tcc+D+D0π0T_{cc}^+\to D^+D^0\pi^0 and radiative decays D+D0γD^+D^0 \gamma. Our results show that the decay width of Tcc+D0D0π+T_{cc}^+\to D^0D^0\pi^+ is the largest one, which is just the experimental observation channel. Our theoretical total strong and radiative widths are in favor of the Tcc+T_{cc}^+ as a D+D0|D^{*+}D^0\rangle dominated bound state. The total strong and radiative width in the single channel limit and isospin singlet limit are given as 59.74.4+4.6 keV59.7^{+4.6}_{-4.4} \text{ keV} and 46.72.9+2.7 keV46.7^{+2.7}_{-2.9} \text{ keV}, respectively. Our calculation is cutoff-independent and without prior isospin assignment. The absolute partial widths and ratios of the different decay channels can be used to test the structure of Tcc+T_{cc}^+ state when the updated experimental results are available.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2107.14784,
  title  = {Probing the long-range structure of the $T_{cc}^+$ with the strong and electromagnetic decays},
  author = {Lu Meng and Guang-Juan Wang and Bo Wang and Shi-Lin Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14784},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

7 pages, 4 figures; Accepted version by Letter in Physical Review D