Investigating the excited $\Omega^{0}_{c}$ states through $\Xi_{c}K$ and $\Xi^{'}_{c}K$ decay channels
Hongxia Huang, Jialun Ping, Fan Wang

TL;DR
This study models newly observed $ ext{Omega}_c^0$ states as molecular pentaquarks using the chiral quark model, successfully explaining some states as $ ext{Xi} D$ resonances and predicting others, including higher mass states.
Contribution
It introduces a molecular pentaquark model for $ ext{Omega}_c^0$ states and provides explanations for specific observed states within this framework.
Findings
$ ext{Omega}_c(3119)^0$ explained as $ ext{Xi} D$ resonance with $J^P=1/2^-$
Predicted a higher mass $ ext{Omega}_c^0$ state at 3533 MeV with $J^P=5/2^-$
Extended analysis to $ ext{Omega}_b^0$ states with similar results.
Abstract
Inspired by the five newly observed states by the LHCb detector, we study the states as the wave molecular pentaquarks with , , , and by solving the RGM equation in the framework of chiral quark model. Both the energies and the decay widths are obtained in this work. Our results suggest that can be explained as an wave resonance state of with , and the decay channels are the wave and . Other reported states cannot be obtained in our present calculation. Another state with much higher mass 3533 MeV with is also obtained. In addition, the calculation is extended to the states, similar results as that of are…
| (fm) | (MeV) | (MeV) | (MeV) | (MeV) | (MeV) | |
| 0.518 | 313 | 313 | 450 | 1635 | 4988 | |
| (MeV fm-2) | (MeV) | |||||
| 48.59 | -0.961 | 0.84 | 0.82 | 0.35 | 0.27 | |
| 0.30 | 0.25 | 0.20 | 0.20 | 0.15 |
| Exp. | 1318 | 1533 | 2469 | 2577 | 2646 | 2695 | 2766 |
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| ChQM | 1225 | 1359 | 2448 | 2527 | 2543 | 2662 | 2672 |
| Exp. | 495 | 892 | 548 | 783 | 1864 | 2007 | |
| ChQM | 593 | 830 | 523 | 702 | 1980 | 2007 | |
| Exp. | 5795 | 5935 | 5949 | 6046 | ? | 5279 | 5325 |
| ChQM | 5794 | 5880 | 5884 | 6008 | 6011 | 5351 | 5358 |
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| 3146 | 3324 | 3533 | |||
| 58.1 | 63.6 | 50.3 | |||
| 3.3 | 3.6 | 13.4 | |||
| 1.9 | 0.2 | 36.3 | |||
| 31.1 | 1.2 | ||||
| 1.9 | 31.3 | ||||
| 3.7 | 0.1 | ||||
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TopicsAtomic and Subatomic Physics Research · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions · Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Investigating the excited states through and decay channels
Hongxia Huang1, Jialun Ping1111Corresponding author: [email protected], Fan Wang2
1Department of Physics and Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Numerical Simulation of Large Scale Complex Systems, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China
2Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, P.R. China
Abstract
Inspired by the five newly observed states by the LHCb detector, we study the states as the wave molecular pentaquarks with , , , and by solving the RGM equation in the framework of chiral quark model. Both the energies and the decay widths are obtained in this work. Our results suggest that can be explained as an wave resonance state of with , and the decay channels are the wave and . Other reported states cannot be obtained in our present calculation. Another state with much higher mass 3533 MeV with is also obtained. In addition, the calculation is extended to the states, similar results as that of are obtained.
pacs:
13.75.Cs, 12.39.Pn, 12.39.Jh
I Introduction
There has been important experimental progress in the sector of heavy baryons in the past decade. Many heavy baryons have been reported. For example, the triplet of excited baryons, , was observed by Belle Belle1 in 2005, and they tentatively identified the quantum numbers of these states as . In 2008, the same neutral state was also observed by the Collaboration with the mean value of mass higher than that obtained by Belle BABAR1 . The charmed baryons and were observed by both and Belle Collaborations in 2007 BABAR2 ; Belle2 . The charm-strange baryons and were reported by Belle Belle3 and later confirmed by BABAR3 . and were also investigated by BABAR3 . Among the expected charmed baryons, the spectrum of the baryons, which have quark content of , is still unknown. Only two states: and with and respectively have been observed before BABAR4 ; PDG2016 . Very recently, the LHCb Collaboration reported five new narrow states in the invariant mass spectrum. They are: the , , , , and LHCb . Moreover, the decay widths of these states were also observed by the experiment, which are only a few MeV. However, the quantum numbers and the structures of these states are still unclear now.
All these experimental progress of heavy baryons have stimulated extensive interest in understanding the structures of the charmed baryons. A classical way to describe the charmed baryons is based on the assumption that they are conventional charmed baryons. And another way is treating them as candidates of molecular states. Take the and states for example. Being considered as two traditional charmed baryons, the strong decays of these two states have been studied by using the heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory ChengHY , the model ChenC , and the chiral quark model ZhongXH . On the other hand, many work treat them as candidates of molecular states. J. R. Zhang found that and as the wave state and state respectively by means of QCD sum rules. J. He and X. Liu explained the as an isoscalar wave or wave system within the one-boson-exchange model HeJ . For the newly observed states, some work treat them as traditional charmed baryons. S. S. Agaev et al. calculated the masses and the residues of these states with and in the framework of QCD two-point sum rules and they were inclined to assign the and states as the first radially excited () and () charmed baryons Agaev . H. X. Chen et al. studied the decay properties of the wave charmed baryons within the light-cone QCD sum rules, including some , , states, as well as these newly reported states HXChen . They interpreted one of these states was a state, two of them were state and state, another two may be with and . M. Karliner and J. L. Rosner explained these baryons as bound states of a wave diquark and a quark Karliner , and they predicted two of spin , two of spin , and one of spin , all with negative parity. K. L. Wang et al. investigated the strong and radiative decay properties of the low-lying states in a constituent quark model KLWang . Their results show that the and can be assigned to have , the with , the with , and the might be one of the two states of the first radial excitations. Another way to describe these states is assuming they are pentaquark states. G. Yang et al. did a dynamical calculation of 5-quark systems to study the structure of the pentaquarks in the chiral quark model by taking the advantage of gaussian expansion method GYang , and they pointed out that the , and are possible the candidates of these new particles.
Actually, the hadron-hadron scattering is one of the important ways to generate and identify multi-quark states. Therefore, to provide the necessary information for experiment to search for the multi-quark states, we should not only calculate the mass spectrum but also study the corresponding scattering process. The scattering phase shifts will show a resonance behavior in the resonance energy region. By using the constituent quark models and the resonating group method (RGM) RGM , we have obtained the resonance during the scattering process, the energy and decay width of the partial wave are consistent with the experiment data Ping2009 . Extending to the pentaquark system, we investigated the state in the different scattering channels: , , and Gao2017 . Both the resonance mass and decay width were obtained, which provide the necessary information for experiment searching at Jefferson Lab. Therefore, it is interesting to extend such study to the newly observed states. In this work, we will assume states are pentaquark states, calculate both the masses and decay widths of these states, and analyze if there are some states which can be explained as pentaquarks by comparing with the LHCb data. Finally, we will also extend the study to the states because of the heavy flavor symmetry.
The structure of this paper is as follows. A brief introduction of a constituent quark model used is given in section II. Section III devotes to the numerical results and discussions. The summary is shown in the last section.
II Chiral quark model
Here, we use the chiral quark model to study the states. The Salamanca model was chosen as the representative of the chiral quark models, because the Salamanca group’s work covers the hadron spectra, nucleon-nucleon interaction, and multiquark states. We also have used this model to study the nucleon-nucleon interaction, dibaryon resonance states, such as state Ping2009 , ChenM2011 ; Huang2015 , and so on. In this model,the constituent quarks interact with each other through the one-gluon-exchange and the Goldstone boson exchange in addition to the color confinement. For the system with strangeness, a version of chiral quark model Garcilazo ; QBLi had been used, where full SU(3) scalar octet meson-exchange was used. These scalar potentials have the same functional form as the one of SU(2) ChQM but a different SU(3) operator dependence Garcilazo . The model details can be found in Ref. Salamanca . Here we only give the Hamiltonian:
[TABLE]
Where is quark tensor operator; and are standard Yukawa functions; is the kinetic energy of the center of mass; is the quark-gluon coupling constant; is the coupling constant for chiral field, which is determined from the coupling constant through
[TABLE]
The other symbols in the above expressions have their usual meanings.
Generally, we use the parameters from our former work of dibaryons, only the mass of charm quark is adjusted to fit the charmed mesons and baryons used in this work. However, the former parameters can describe the ground baryons well, but cannot fit the ground mesons, especially the meson, the mass of which is much higher than the experimental value. This situation will lead to a consequence that some bound states cannot decay to the open channel , because of the much larger mass of . To solve this problem, we adjust the parameters which are related to and quarks in this work, and keep the parameters which are related to and quarks. By doing this, the parameters can describe the nucleon-nucleon interaction well, and at the same time, it will lower the mass of . All the parameters of Hamiltonian are given in Table 1. The calculated masses of baryons and mesons in comparison with experimental values are shown in Table 2.
III The results and discussions
In this work, we investigate the wave states as the molecular pentaquarks with , , , and . Three structures are considered here, and they are structure 1: , 2: , and 3: . All the channels involved are listed in Table 3.
III.1 Bound state calculation
As the first step, we do a dynamic calculation based on RGM to check whether or not there is any bound state. We expand the relative motion wavefunction between two clusters in the RGM equation by Gaussian bases. By doing this, the integro-differential equation of RGM can be reduced to algebraic equation, generalized eigen-equation. Then we can obtain the energy of the system by solving this generalized eigen-equation. In the present calculation, the baryon-meson separation is taken to be less than 6 fm (to keep the dimensions of matrix manageably small). The single channel calculation shows that the energy of each channel locates above the threshold of the corresponding channel, which means that there is no any singlet bound state. By coupling all the channels with different structures, there exist some bound states. The binding energies and the masses of the bound states, as well as the percentages of each channel in the eigen-states are listed in Table 4. Before discussing the features of the states, we should mention how we obtain the mass of these states. The binding energy , where , and stand for the theoretical mass of the molecular state, a baryon and a meson, respectively. To minimize the theoretical errors and to compare calculated results to the experimental data, we shift the mass of a molecular state to , where the experimental values of a baryon and a meson are used. Taking the state an example, the calculated mass of this state is MeV, then the binding energy is obtained by subtracting the theoretical masses of and , (MeV). Adding the experimental masses of the hadrons, the mass of this state (MeV) is arrived.
For the system, the channel-coupling of each structure cannot make any state bound. Then we do a channel-coupling among different structures. We find that there is no bound state by coupling channels of structure 1 and 2, or structures 2 and 3. However, by coupling the channels of structure 1 and 3, we obtain a stable state, the mass of which is MeV, MeV lower than the threshold of , and the main component of this state is , as showed in Table 4. While coupling these channels to the channels of structure 2, in which there are open channels and , whose thresholds are lower than the mass of . The result of the channel-coupling of three structures shows that the lowest eigen-energy is very close but still higher than the threshold of the , which means there is no bound state by all channels coupling. However, we also obtain a quasi-stable state, the mass of which is smaller than the threshold of , but it fluctuates around the MeV with about 1 MeV with the variation of the baryon-meson separation. To confirm whether or not the state can survive as a resonance state after the full channels coupling, the study of the scattering process of the open channels is needed, which is discussed in subsection B.
For the system, we only find a bound state with a binding energy of only MeV by coupling channels of structure 1 and 3, as shown in Table 4. There is neither any bound state nor any quasi-stable state by the full channels coupling. However, we still need to calculate the scattering process of the open channel to check if the state is a resonance or not. The result is also shown in subsection B.
For the system, it includes only one channel of each structure. Although it is not bound for each structure, there exists a bound state by three channels coupling. The binding energy and the mass of this system, as well as the percentages of each channel in the eigen-state are shown in Table 4, from which we can see that the mass of the system is MeV. Moreover, this state can also decay to some open channels, but they are wave channels. This and wave channel-coupling, which is through the tenser force, is always very weak in our quark model calculation Gao2017 . So we can estimate the effect of this kind of coupling is small here. We will do this and wave channel-coupling in future.
III.2 Resonance states and decay widths
To find the resonance mass and decay width of the quasi-stable states discussed in subsection A, we calculate the phase shifts of the corresponding open channels. For the system, coupling to the wave open channel cause the bound state to change into an elastic resonance, where the phase shift, shown in Fig. 1, rises through at a resonance mass. We find the resonance mass is MeV, which shows the energy of the bound state is pushed up a little. From the Fig. 1, the decay width is obviously very narrow, which is only MeV. By coupling to another open channel , similar results are obtained. The bound state changes to a resonance state of the same resonance mass and decay width. Therefore, we can obtain a resonance state with in the decay channel or , with the resonance mass MeV and decay width MeV, which is consistent with the newly reported , the decay width of which is MeV. What’s more, this were observed both in and in the LHCb experiment LHCb . So in our quark model calculation, we can explain the as a resonance state with .
For the system, we study the scattering process of the open channel wave , and we do not find any resonance state. This is reasonable. Because the binding energy of the is only MeV, which is too small. The channel-coupling to the pushes the energy of above its threshold. So there is no resonance state with in our calculation.
In addition, we also extend the study to the system because of the heavy flavor symmetry. The results are similar to that of system. We obtain a resonance state with in the decay channels and , with the same resonance mass of MeV and decay width MeV (see Fig. 2). Besides, there is a bound state with and the energy of it is MeV.
IV Summary
In summary, we investigate the excited states as the wave molecular pentaquarks with , , , and by solving the RGM equation in the framework of chiral quark model. In this work, we study not only the energies of the states but also the decay widths of them. Our results show that the can be explained as an wave resonance state with , and the decay channels are the wave and . Other newly reported states cannot be obtained in our present calculation. They maybe the conventional charmed baryons with wave or even higher partial waves. It is also possible that these states are mixing states with and . The unquenched quark model, which takes into account the high Fock components, is feasible to do this mixing. We also obtain another state with much higher mass, which is MeV with . Besides, the calculation is extended to the states, similar results as that of are obtained.
Our calculation also shows that the coupling of the structure and is important to make the bound, and the coupling with structure is very weak, which can be used to explain why the reported has a narrow decay width. It also gives us some information that the decay width of these states maybe somehow related to the structure of these states. More structures will be studied in future.
Acknowledgements.
This work is supported partly by the National Science Foundation of China under Contract Nos. 11675080, 11035006 and 11535005, the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (Grant No. 16KJB140006), and Jiangsu Government Scholarship for Overseas Studies.
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