Molecular components in P-wave charmed-strange mesons

TL;DR

This paper investigates the nature of narrow $D_{s0}^*(2317)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$ mesons, showing that coupling to meson-meson thresholds within a quark model explains their masses and properties.

Contribution

It introduces a coupled-channel quark model with a $^{3}P_{0}$ mechanism to explain the masses and decay properties of $D_s$ mesons, incorporating meson-meson interactions.

Findings

Coupling to $DK$ and $D^*K$ thresholds lowers meson masses.

Model reproduces the $D_{s1}(2536)$ decay properties.

Probabilities of Fock components in physical states are computed.

Abstract

Results obtained by various experiments show that the $D_{s0}^{\ast}(2317)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$ mesons are very narrow states located below the $DK$ and $D^{\ast}K$ thresholds, respectively. This is markedly in contrast with the expectations of naive quark models and heavy quark symmetry. Motivated by a recent lattice study which addresses the mass shifts of the $c\bar{s}$ ground states with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{+}$ ($D_{s0}^{\ast}(2317)$) and $J^{P}=1^{+}$ ($D_{s1}(2460)$) due to their coupling with $S$-wave $D^{(\ast)}K$ thresholds, we perform a similar analysis within a nonrelativistic constituent quark model in which quark-antiquark and meson-meson degrees of freedom are incorporated. The quark model has been applied to a wide range of hadronic observables and thus the model parameters are completely constrained. The coupling between quark-antiquark and meson-meson Fock components is done using a $^{3}P_{0}$ model in which its only free parameter $\gamma$ has been elucidated performing a global fit to the decay widths of mesons that belong to different quark sectors, from light to heavy. We observe that the coupling of the $0^{+}$ $(1^{+})$ meson sector to the $DK$ $(D^{\ast}K)$ threshold is the key feature to simultaneously lower the masses of the corresponding $D_{s0}^{\ast}(2317)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$ states predicted by the naive quark model and describe the $D_{s1}(2536)$ meson as the $1^{+}$ state of the $j_{q}^{P}=3/2^{+}$ doublet predicted by heavy quark symmetry, reproducing its strong decay properties. Our calculation allows to introduce the coupling with the $D$-wave $D^{\ast}K$ channel and the computation of the probabilities associated with the different Fock components of the physical state.