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Y(4260) and Y(4360) as mixed hadrocharmonium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-17 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Recent BESIII data indicate a significant rate of the process e+ehcπ+πe^+e^- \to h_c \pi^+ \pi^- at the Y(4260) and Y(4360) resonances, implying a substantial breaking of the heavy quark spin symmetry. We consider these resonances within the picture of hadrocharmonium, i.e. of (relatively) compact charmonium embedded in a light quark mesonic excitation. We suggest that the resonances Y(4260) and Y(4360) are a mixture, with mixing close to maximal, of two states of hadrochamonium, one containing a spin-triplet ccˉc \bar c pair and the other containing a spin-singlet heavy quark pair. We argue that this model is in a reasonable agreement with the available data and produces distinctive and verifiable predictions for the energy dependence of the production rate in e+ee^+e^- annihilation of the final states J/ψππJ/\psi \pi \pi, ψππ\psi' \pi \pi and hcππh_c \pi \pi, including the pattern of interference between the two resonances.

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@article{arxiv.1309.1681,
  title  = {Y(4260) and Y(4360) as mixed hadrocharmonium},
  author = {Xin Li and M. B. Voloshin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.1681},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

9 pages, 2 figures. Note added including a comparison of our model with the new BESIII data which became available after the initial version of our paper