Selected strong decays of $\eta(2225)$ and $\phi(2170)$ as $\Lambda \bar\Lambda$ bound states
Yubing Dong, Amand Faessler, Thomas Gutsche, Qifang L\"u, Valery E., Lyubovitskij

TL;DR
This paper investigates the strong decay behaviors of the resonances $ ext{eta}(2225)$ and $ ext{phi}(2170)$, proposing they are $ ext{Lambda}ar{ ext{Lambda}}$ molecular states, and uses a phenomenological approach to analyze their decay channels.
Contribution
It introduces a molecular scenario for these resonances and calculates their decay modes using effective Lagrangians, providing insights into their structure and decay patterns.
Findings
Decay modes $ ext{eta}(2225) o K^*K$ and $ ext{phi}(2170) o KK$ dominate.
Decay modes involving vector and scalar mesons are suppressed due to phase space and couplings.
Results support the molecular state interpretation of these resonances.
Abstract
The strong decays of the two resonances and are discussed for selected decay channels. The two resonances are considered as the bound states in the molecular scenario. The phenomenological hadronic molecular approach is employed for the calculation of respective decay modes using effective Lagrangians. Our results show that the decay modes and dominate over the partial decay widths of and due to phase space and couplings.
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Selected strong decays of
and as bound states
Yubing Dong
Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
Theoretical Physics Center for Science Facilities (TPCSF), CAS, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China
Amand Faessler
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D–72076 Tübingen, Germany
Thomas Gutsche
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D–72076 Tübingen, Germany
Qifang Lü
Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
Theoretical Physics Center for Science Facilities (TPCSF), CAS, Beijing 100049, People’s Republic of China
School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 101408, China
Valery E. Lyubovitskij
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Tübingen, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Auf der Morgenstelle 14, D–72076 Tübingen, Germany
Departamento de Física y Centro Científico Tecnológico de Valparaíso-CCTVal, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Casilla 110-V, Valparaíso, Chile
Department of Physics, Tomsk State University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
Laboratory of Particle Physics, Tomsk Polytechnic University, 634050 Tomsk, Russia
Abstract
The strong decays of the two resonances and are discussed for selected decay channels. The two resonances are considered as the bound states in the molecular scenario. The phenomenological hadronic molecular approach is employed for the calculation of respective decay modes using effective Lagrangians. Our results show that the decay modes and dominate over the partial decay widths of and due to phase space and couplings.
baryonium states, strong decays, hyperons
pacs:
12.38.Lg, 14.20.Jn, 14.40.Rt, 36.10.Gv
I Introduction
Recently, the BESIII Collaboration performed a partial wave analysis of the decay process , and confirmed the existence of the state, which has a mass of and a width of Ablikim:2016hlu . The quantum numbers of were assigned to be . There are only a few theoretical studies on in the literature. In Refs. Li:2008we ; Li:2008et the strong decays of as a conventional state together with its partners were investigated in the framework of the quark-pair creation model, and the assignment was favored for the state. An alternative interpretation of as a bound state of has been proposed in the one-boson exchange model in Ref. Zhao:2013ffn . Conversely, the state with , denoted previously as , has been considered using different physical interpretations. The mass and width of the state are MeV and MeV, respectively Olive:2016xmw . We also quote a recent result of the BESIII Collaboration Ablikim:2017auj for the mass MeV and for the width MeV. Taking into account information about production and decays of the state Yuan:2008br , might be its strange partner. Possible interpretations include a traditional state Ding:2007pc ; Shen:2009zze ; Wang:2012wa ; Afonin:2014nya , hybrid state Ding:2007pc ; Ding:2006ya , tetraquark state Wang:2006ri ; Chen:2008ej ; Drenska:2008gr , bound state Zhao:2013ffn ; Deng:2013aca , and resonance state MartinezTorres:2008gy ; GomezAvila:2007ru .
In the traditional quark model the total decay width of can be described well by considering it as the state Li:2008we . However, when assigning as the or state, then it will result in a much larger decay width Barnes:2002mu ; Ding:2007pc ; Wang:2012wa than observed. Moreover, the very small mass difference between these two states can hardly be explained within the quark potential model, in which the mass of the state should be much higher than that of the state, even if the spin fine splitting is taken into account Godfrey:1998pd . The interpretation of as the state also causes the reversal of the fine structure Afonin:2014nya . Considering that the masses of and are very close to the threshold, it also seems natural that and are considered as the and bound states, respectively Zhao:2013ffn . Within the one-boson exchange model the mass of the state is slightly higher than that of the state, which is in good agreement with experimental data Ablikim:2016hlu ; Olive:2016xmw . Besides the mass spectrum, it is natural to examine the strong decay behavior within the same framework. Note that ”deuteronlike” states near the respective baryon-antibaryon threshold were originally discussed in the context of the nucleon-antinucleon system. There the notion of so-called quasinuclear bound states, weak composites of , and their properties was intensely pursued to explain resonance structures observed in annihilation reactions. For one of our contributions to this topic see, for example, Ref. Dover:1990kn .
In this paper, we present a study of selected strong decay modes of the and states. We employ a hadronic molecular scenario Faessler:2007gv -Dong:2017gaw by taking the two resonances as weakly bound states of in a phenomenological Lagrangian approach. It should be mentioned that the approach is based on the compositeness condition Weinberg:1962hj -Branz:2009cd — a powerful method in quantum field theory for the study of composite bound states (hadrons, glueballs, hybrids, hadronic atoms and molecules, multiquark states), which was extensively used in Refs. Efimov:1993ei -Branz:2009cd and Faessler:2007gv -Dong:2017gaw . In particular, the compositeness condition gives an equation for the coupling constant of the bound state with its constituents where the mass of the bound state is the input parameter. We suppose that our analyses of the and strong decays are useful for running and future experiments.
This paper is organized as follows. In Sec. II we briefly show our formalism, the calculations for the couplings of and , and the matrix elements for the transitions of (vector-vector mesons), (vector-pseudoscalar mesons), (vector-scalar mesons), and (pseudoscalar-pseudoscalar mesons) in the hadronic molecular scenario. In Sec. III we present an application of our approach to the selected strong decays of and states. A short summary is given in Sec. IV.
II Approach
In our numerical calculation, we use the following spin-parity quantum numbers for the and states and , respectively. Since the masses of the baryon [] and the system are MeV and about 2232 MeV, respectively, the discussed and resonances are about MeV and MeV below the threshold of the system. We consider the states and as weakly bound states of and in the hadronic molecular scenario. For this purpose we employ our phenomenological Lagrangian approach to describe these resonances. The interaction Lagrangians, describing the couplings of the and baryonium states with the constituents, read
[TABLE]
Here is a phenomenological correlation function describing the distribution of and constituents in the and states. To produce ultraviolet-finite Feynman diagrams, the Fourier transform of the correlation function should vanish sufficiently fast in the ultraviolet region of the Euclidean space. We use the Gaussian form for the correlation function
[TABLE]
where is the Euclidean Jacobi momentum and is a free size parameter, which has a value of about 1 GeV.
The couplings of and with the and constituents are calculated from the compositeness condition (see Refs. Weinberg:1962hj -Branz:2009cd and Faessler:2007gv -Dong:2017gaw )
[TABLE]
where is the derivative of the mass operator in the case of and of the transverse part of the mass operator in the case of the state, respectively. Note that the compositeness condition gives the relation between the coupling constant of the bound state with their constituents and its mass .
The quantity is the matrix element between a physical particle state and the corresponding bare state. The compositeness condition enables one to represent a bound state by introducing a hadronic field interacting with its constituents so that the renormalization factor is equal to zero. This does not mean that we can solve the QCD bound state equations but we are able to show that the condition provides an effective and self–consistent way to describe the coupling of a hadron to its constituents. In particular, the compositeness condition gives an equation for the coupling constant of the bound state with its constituents where the mass of the bound state is the input parameter. One starts with an effective interaction Lagrangian written down in terms of quark and hadron variables. Then, by using Feynman rules, the –matrix elements describing hadron-hadron interactions are given in terms of a set of quark level Feynman diagrams.
Decomposition of the mass operator in the transverse and longitudinal parts reads
[TABLE]
where . The corresponding Feynman diagrams describing the mass operators of the and states are shown in Fig. 1.
The expressions for the mass operators of and are given by
[TABLE]
where is the free spin-1/2 baryon propagator with being the mass of the hyperon.
The expressions for the coupling constants are given by
[TABLE]
where is the structure integral
[TABLE]
and
[TABLE]
The use of the central values of the and masses MeV and MeV in Eqs. (8) gives predictions for the and couplings.
In this paper we calculate some selected strong two-body decays and , which are described by the Feynman diagrams shown in Fig. 2. For the additional hadronic interaction vertices the empirical meson-baryon form factors are employed. Those effective Lagrangians are
[TABLE]
In the case of vector meson-baryon couplings we restrict to the minimal coupling — leading-order contribution in the inverse baryon mass expansion; i.e., we neglect the nonminimal couplings (or ignore the tensor coupling in the interaction as in Zhao:2013ffn ). We fix meson-nucleon couplings using symmetry predictions and phenomenological constraints Zhao:2013ffn ; Doring:2010ap ,
[TABLE]
where and . The set of numerical values of the meson-baryon couplings is listed in Table 1 Zhao:2013ffn ; Doring:2010ap . Here we employ the monopole-type form factor (in momentum space) of the form
[TABLE]
proposed in Ref. Cheng:2004ru and extensively used in literature Cheng:2004ru -Yu:2017zst with being the exchange baryon mass and being the cutoff parameter for the exchange momentum. According to the discussion in the literature Cheng:2004ru -Yu:2017zst , we choose with . These form factors are necessary to be consistent with the phenomenological Lagrangians utilized before in Zhao:2013ffn .
Now it is straightforward to write down the matrix elements for the discussed two-body transition,
[TABLE]
for the and decays and
[TABLE]
for the and decays, where and , are the momenta of initial and final particles; and , , are dimensionless couplings of and with final mesons, respectively; , , and are the polarization vectors of the state and produced vector mesons, respectively; is the free spin-1/2 baryon propagator.
Two-body strong decay widths are calculated according to the formulas
[TABLE]
Here and are the 3-momenta of the decay products in the center of mass frame and is the Källen kinematical triangle function.
III Results and Discussions
In Fig. 3 we show the dependence of the couplings , on the cutoff parameter [see Eq. (8)]. When is varied in the region of (0.8-1.2 GeV), the two resulting couplings are not too sensitive to the model parameter . The variations of the dimensionless couplings are and , respectively. According to our previous calculations in the context of resonances and to the deuteron system, a typical value of is often employed. Thus, in this calculation we get and for and , respectively. To make detailed calculations for the decay processes of Fig. 2, the couplings of the effective Lagrangians in Eqs. (11)-(18) are needed. We take these from Refs. Zhao:2013ffn ; Doring:2010ap as listed in Table I.
TABLE I. Effective meson-baryon couplings.
[TABLE]
It should be reiterated that additional phenomenological form factors in the matrix elements of Eqs. (II) and (22) are introduced, which contain a free parameter . This parameter is fixed from data on the total widths of the the and Olive:2016xmw : MeV and MeV. In particular, an increase of the parameter leads to an increase of the partial widths of and . We compare the sum of the partial modes of the and , which include the dominant channels , , and in the case of and in the case of , with total widths of these states. Using data on the widths of the and states we found that in the case of the parameter is constrained as , while in the case of the parameter is constrained as . In both cases the lower and upper limits for the correspond to the lower and upper limits for the sum of the partial decays modes, respectively. Therefore, taking into account the two above constraints for we finally conclude that from data on the total widths of and the parameter should be varied in the region .
Table II summarizes the numerical results for the partial decay widths of the two resonances including the variation of parameter from to . We compare our predictions for the sum of partial widths with data for the total widths of and . Also we present a comparison of partial widths with available calculations in the model using the interpretation Li:2008we ; Wang:2012wa . The much larger decay widths of the , , and channels compared to are due to the phase space and particularly to the couplings. A similar feature occurs for the state, for which the decay dominates over the others because of the phase space and relatively big coupling constant . We see that for , the channel dominates for the bound state, while it is a OZI-forbidden mode within the interpretation. For , the model calculations in the literature usually neglect its modes and give a rather larger total decay width, which disfavor the interpretation. These differences can help us to distinguish the bound state and interpretation.
As an independent check of consistency of our results we would like to compare our result for the decay width MeV with data MeV, which can be extracted using experimental result for eV and typical values for the branching of deduced using known data for other states.
For convenience, in Figs. 4 and 5 we also display the dependence of the partial widths of and and their sums on the parameter varied in the wide region and compare the total width with the data. Again, one can see that data on the total decays of the and states give strong constraint on the parameter : .
Table 2. Numerical results for the and decay widths (in MeV).
[TABLE]
IV Summary
We have employed the hadronic molecular scenario for the two resonances and considering them as weakly bound states. A phenomenological effective Lagrangian approach is applied for some selected partial decay widths. Our numerical results show that the scenario gives a reasonable description of the partial decay widths of the and states showing that the modes and modes are, respectively, dominant. Moreover, together with the study of the mass spectrum of the two resonances in Ref. Zhao:2013ffn , we conclude that the baryonium interpretations for the two resonances might be possible. Using data on the total widths of the and states we derive the constraint on the parameter in the phenomenological form factor controlling the off-shell behavior of the exchanged baryon between the produced two final mesons: . For these values of the parameter our predictions for the partial decay widths of and are shown in Table II. Here we studied selected decay modes of the and states and included the dominant decay modes and . There are, of course, many other channels, such as and , which contribute a full coupled-channel calculation and will be studied elsewhere.
Acknowledgements.
We thank Bing-Song Zou, Fei Huang, and Yin Huang for useful discussions. This work is supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundations of China under the Grants No. 11475192, No. 11565007, No. 11635009, No. 11705056, and No. 11521505 and by the fund of Sino-German CRC 110 ”Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in QCD” project by NSFC under Grant No. 11621131001, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2016M601133. This work was funded by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) under Project 05P2015 - ALICE at High Rate (BMBF-FSP 202): “Jet- and fragmentation processes at ALICE and the parton structure of nuclei and structure of heavy hadrons,” by CONICYT (Chile) PIA/Basal FB0821, by Tomsk State University Competitiveness Improvement Program and the Russian Federation program “Nauka” (Contract No. 0.1764.GZB.2017) and by Tomsk Polytechnic University Competitiveness Enhancement Program (grant No. VIU-FTI-72/2017). Y. B. D. also thanks the support from Alexander von Humboldt foundation and the hospitality of the Institute of Theoretical Physics, Tuebingen University, Germany.
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