$X(3872)$, $X_b$, and the $\chi_{b1}(3P)$ state

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential production, discovery, and characteristics of the $X_b$ state, a bottomonium analogue of $X(3872)$, suggesting it may be close in mass and mixed with the $ ext{chi}_{b1}(3P)$ state, affecting experimental observations.

Contribution

It proposes that the $X_b$ could be a mixed state with $ ext{chi}_{b1}(3P)$, influencing how experiments interpret observed signals in bottomonium spectroscopy.

Findings

$X_b$ may be close in mass to $ ext{chi}_{b1}(3P)$.

$X_b$ could be a mixture of molecular and quarkonium states.

Experimental signals attributed to $ ext{chi}_{b1}(3P)$ might include $X_b$.

Abstract

We discuss the possible production and discovery channels in $e^+e^-$ and $pp$ machines of the $X_b$, the bottomonium counterpart of $X(3872)$ and the putative isoscalar analogue of the charged bottomonium-like states $Z_b$ discovered by Belle. We suggest that the $X_b$ may be close in mass to the bottomonium state $\chi_{b1}(3P)$, mixing with it and sharing its decay channels, just as $X(3872)$ is likely a mixture of a $\bar D D^*$ molecule and $\chi_{c1}(2P)$. Consequently, the experiments which reported observing $\chi_{b1}(3P)$ might have actually discovered the $X_b$, or a mixture of the two states.