Baryons and Mesons with Beauty

TL;DR

This paper reviews historical SU(3) flavor symmetry applications to strange particles and extends similar techniques to predict new beauty and charm flavored hadrons, aiming to guide future experimental discoveries.

Contribution

It applies SU(3) symmetry breaking methods to predict new beauty and charm hadrons, offering a phenomenological framework for classifying observed states.

Findings

Predicted new beauty and charm hadrons based on symmetry considerations.

Suggested that experimental confirmation could validate the symmetry-breaking approach.

Provided a historical perspective linking past strange particle classification to current heavy-flavor hadron predictions.

Abstract

Recent experimental findings of several mesons and baryons with "beauty" and "charm" as flavors remind us of the days when strangeness was discovered, and how its inclusion led to SU(3)-flavor symmetry with enormous success in the classification of the "proliferated" states into SU(3) multiplets. One of the key elements was the successful application of the first order perturbation in symmetry breaking, albeit what then appeared to be huge mass differences, and the prediction of new states that were confirmed by experiments. In this note, we venture into the past and, applying the same techniques, predict some new "beauty-" and "charm-" flavored hadrons. If these new states are confirmed experimentally, it may provide a useful phenomenological model for classifying numerous states that are found to be in the PDG data and could invite further theoretical challenges towards our understanding of symmetry breaking.