New Exotic Meson and Baryon Resonances from Doubly-Heavy Hadronic Molecules

TL;DR

This paper predicts new exotic doubly-heavy hadronic resonances based on molecular-like isospin exchange mechanisms, extending to various meson and baryon combinations, and relates them to observed narrow states.

Contribution

It introduces a novel molecular-like binding mechanism for doubly-heavy hadronic states and predicts a wide spectrum of new resonances across different channels.

Findings

Predicted new resonances in meson-meson, meson-baryon, baryon-baryon, and baryon-antibaryon channels.

Identified specific states involving heavy quarks c and b and their antiparticles.

Connected predictions to observed exotic states like $X(3872)$, $Z_b$, and $Z_c$.

Abstract

We predict several new exotic doubly-heavy hadronic resonances, inferring from the observed exotic bottomonium-like and charmonium-like narrow states $X(3872)$, $Z_b(10610)$, $Z_b(10650)$, $Z_c(3900)$, and $Z_c(4020/4025)$. We interpret the binding mechanism as mostly molecular-like isospin-exchange attraction between two heavy-light mesons in a relative S-wave state. We then generalize it to other systems containing two heavy hadrons which can couple through isospin exchange. The new predicted states include resonances in meson-meson, meson-baryon, baryon-baryon, and baryon-antibaryon channels. These include those giving rise to final states involving a heavy quark $Q=c,b$ and antiquark $\bar Q' = \bar c,\bar b$, namely $D \bar D^*$, $D^* \bar D^*$, $D^* B^*$, $\bar B B^*$, $\bar B^* B^*$, $\Sigma_c \bar D^*$, $\Sigma_c B^*$, $\Sigma_b \bar D^*$, $\Sigma_b B^*$, $\Sigma_c \bar \Sigma_c$, $\Sigma_c \bar \Lambda_c$, $\Sigma_c \bar \Lambda_b$, $\Sigma_b \bar \Sigma_b$, $\Sigma_b \bar \Lambda_b$, and $\Sigma_b \bar \Lambda_c$, as well as corresponding S-wave states giving rise to $Q Q'$ or $\bar Q \bar Q'$.