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Scalar resonances in the $D^+\to K^-K^+K^+$ decay

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-03-03 v2

Abstract

We study theoretically the resonant structure of the double Cabibbo suppressed D+KK+K+D^+\to K^- K^+K^+ decay. We start from an elementary production diagram, considered subleading in previous approaches, which cannot produce a final KK+K^- K^+ pair at the tree level but which we show to be able to provide the strength of the decay through final meson-meson state interaction. The different meson-meson elementary productions are related through SU(3) and the final rescattering is implemented from a suitable implementation of unitary extensions of ChPT which generate dynamically the scalar resonances f0(980)f_0(980) and a0(980)a_0(980). We obtain a good agreement with recent experimental data from the LHCb collaboration with a minimal freedom in the fit and show the dominance of the a0(980)a_0(980) contribution close to the threshold of the KK+K^- K^+ spectrum.

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@article{arxiv.2011.05185,
  title  = {Scalar resonances in the $D^+\to K^-K^+K^+$ decay},
  author = {L. Roca and E. Oset},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.05185},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, 7 figures