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The third peak structure in the double $J/\psi$ spectrum

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-04-12 v2

Abstract

Recently, the CMS and ATLAS collaborations have reported their J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi and J/ψψJ/\psi \psi^\prime invariant mass distributions, respectively, for searching for fully charmed tetraquarks. Both of them reported the existence of a peak structure around 7.2 \gev7.2~\gev. In this article, we exhibit the role of the ηc(2S)ηc(2S)\eta_c(2S)\eta_c(2S) channel, which is close to this peak position, by studying the J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi and J/ψψJ/\psi \psi^\prime invariant mass distributions for the potential quantum numbers JPC=0++J^{PC}=0^{++} or 2++2^{++} by considering both the coherence and incoherence with the background contribution. All these frameworks can describe the experimental data very well, however with different pole structures. For instance, in the case of 2++2^{++} description of these structures, there always exists a pole slightly below the J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi threshold. For the 0++0^{++} case, a similar pole can also be found below the J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi threshold however with a much lower mass. More importantly, the number of the poles is found to be case-dependent. For the 0++0^{++} (2++2^{++}) case, the peak structure around 7.2 \gev7.2~\gev can (cannot) be produced due to the presence (absence) of the ηc(2S)ηc(2S)\eta_c(2S)\eta_c(2S) channel. Although the pole positions are case-dependent, the relation between the peak structure in the J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi invariant mass distribution and the dip structure in the J/ψψJ/\psi \psi^\prime invariant mass distribution around 7.2 \gev7.2~\gev is unambiguous. We suggest experimentalists to detailed scan both the J/ψJ/ψJ/\psi J/\psi and the J/ψψJ/\psi \psi^\prime invariant mass distributions, especially around 7.2 \gev7.2~\gev to probe the nature of the third fully charmed state.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2212.06535,
  title  = {The third peak structure in the double $J/\psi$ spectrum},
  author = {PengYu Niu and Zhenyu Zhang and Qian Wang and Meng-Lin Du},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06535},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

15 pages, 5 figures; accepted by Science Bulletin

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