Hyperspherical-coordinate approach to the spectra and decay widths of hybrid quarkonia

TL;DR

This paper investigates the spectra and decay widths of hybrid quarkonia using a hyperspherical-coordinate approach, suggesting specific hybrid states correspond to observed mesons and analyzing their decay properties.

Contribution

It introduces a hyperspherical-coordinate method to calculate hybrid quarkonia spectra and decay widths, providing new insights into the nature of certain exotic mesons.

Findings

Magnetic gluon hybrid charmonia match the mass of $ ext{Y}(4415)$

Electric gluon hybrid bottomonia are a few hundred MeV above $ ext{Upsilon}(10860)$

Hybrid meson decay widths into open-flavor mesons are evaluated

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the possibility that Y(4260), Y(4360), $ \psi(4415) $ or X(4660) is the ground state or the first excited state of a hybrid charmonium and examine whether $ \Upsilon ( 10860) $ is the ground state or the first excited state of a hybrid bottomonium. Under a constituent quark model, we carry out numerical calculations to obtain the spectra of both electric gluon and magnetic gluon hybrid quarkonia. We see that the ground state of a magnetic gluon hybrid charmonium and the first excited state of an electric gluon hybrid are comparable in energy to $ \psi(4415) $ and that the first excited states of an electric gluon hybrid bottomonium and the ground state of a magnetic gluon hybrid appear a few hundred MeV above the mass of $ \Upsilon (10860 ) $. Also, we evaluate the widths of the decays of a hybrid charmonium into $D^{(*)} \bar{D}^{(*) } $ and those of a hybrid bottomonium into $ B^{(*) } \bar{B}^{(* ) } $. We show that if the exotic meson candidates are hybrid charmonia, then they are magnetic gluon ones and argue that it seems unlikely that $ \Upsilon (10860) $ is the ground state of an electric gluon hybrid bottomonium.