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The $Z_b$ structures in a constituent quark model coupled-channels calculation

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-11-17 v1

Abstract

The Zb(10610)±Z_b(10610)^\pm and Zb(10650)±Z_b(10650)^\pm are two bottomonium-like structures discovered in the πhb(mP)\pi h_b(mP), πΥ(nS)\pi \Upsilon(nS) and BBˉ()+h.c.B^\ast\bar B^{(\ast)}+h.c. invariant mass spectra, where m={1,2}m=\{1,2\} and n={1,2,3}n=\{1,2,3\}. Their nature is puzzling due to their charge, which forces its minimal quark content to be bbˉudˉb\bar b u\bar d (bbˉduˉb\bar b d\bar u). Thus, it is necessary to explore four-quark systems in order to understand their inner structure. Additionally, their strong coupling to channels such as πΥ\pi \Upsilon and the closeness of their mass to BBˉ()B^\ast\bar B^{(\ast)}-thresholds stimulates a molecular interpretation. Within the framework of a constituent quark model which satisfactorily describes a wide range of properties of (non-)conventional hadrons containing heavy quarks, we perform a coupled-channels calculation of the IG(JPC)=1+(1+)I^G(J^{PC})=1^+(1^{+-}) hidden-bottom sector including B()Bˉ+h.c.B^{(\ast)}\bar B^{\ast}+h.c., πhb\pi h_b, πΥ\pi \Upsilon and ρηb\rho\eta_b channels. We analyze the line shapes in the different channels, describing the Υ(5S)πB()Bˉ()\Upsilon(5S)\to \pi B^{(*)}\bar B^{(*)} by means of the 3P0^3P_0 model. Since our description of the line shapes promising, we perform the same coupled-channels calculation for the ZbZ_b's with JJ^{--}, where J={0,1,2}J=\{0,1,2\}. This allows us to obtain a fair description of the corresponding line shapes. The study of the analytic structure of the SS-matrix suggests that the experimental ZbZ_b structures arise as a combination of several poles with JPC=0J^{PC}=0^{--}, 1±1^{\pm-} and 22^{--} quantum numbers nearby the BBˉB\bar B^\ast and BBˉB^\ast\bar B^\ast thresholds.

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@article{arxiv.2107.02544,
  title  = {The $Z_b$ structures in a constituent quark model coupled-channels calculation},
  author = {Pablo G. Ortega and Jorge Segovia and Francisco Fernandez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.02544},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

10 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1808.00914

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