Hidden-charm and hidden-bottom molecular pentaquarks in chiral perturbation theory

TL;DR

This paper uses chiral perturbation theory to analyze hidden-charm and hidden-bottom pentaquarks, supporting their molecular nature and predicting additional states, with implications for understanding exotic hadrons.

Contribution

It provides a systematic chiral perturbation theory analysis of pentaquark interactions, clarifying their molecular structure and predicting new bound states.

Findings

Supports $P_c$ states as $ ext{S}$-wave molecular pentaquarks.

Disfavors certain spin-parity assignments for $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$.

Predicts seven hidden-bottom molecular states.

Abstract

The newly observed $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ at the LHCb experiment are very close to the $\Sigma_c\bar{D}$ and $\Sigma_c\bar{D}^\ast$ thresholds. In this work, we perform a systematic study and give a complete picture on the interactions between $\Sigma_c^{(\ast)}$ and $\bar{D}^{(\ast)}$ systems in the framework of heavy hadron chiral perturbation theory, where the short-range contact interaction, long-range one-pion-exchange contribution, and intermediate-range two-pion-exchange loop diagrams are all considered. We first investigate the three $P_c$ states without and with considering the $\Lambda_c$ contribution in the loop diagrams. It is difficult to simultaneously reproduce the three $P_c$s unless the effect of $\Lambda_c$ is included. The coupling between $\Sigma_c^{(\ast)}\bar{D}^{(\ast)}$ and $\Lambda_c\bar{D}^{(\ast)}$ channels is crucial for the formation of these $P_c$s. Our calculation supports the $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ to be the $S$-wave hidden-charm $[\Sigma_c\bar{D}]_{J=1/2}^{I=1/2}$, $[\Sigma_c\bar{D}^\ast]_{J=1/2}^{I=1/2}$ and $[\Sigma_c\bar{D}^\ast]_{J=3/2}^{I=1/2}$ molecular pentaquarks, respectively. Our calculation disfavors the spin assignment $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$ for $P_c(4457)$ and $J^P=\frac{3}{2}^-$ for $P_c(4440)$, because the excessively enhanced spin-spin interaction is unreasonable in the present case. We obtain the complete mass spectra of the $[\Sigma_c^{(\ast)}\bar{D}^{(\ast)}]_J$ systems with the fixed low energy constants. Our result indicates the existence of $[\Sigma_c^{\ast}\bar{D}^{\ast}]_J~(J=\frac{1}{2},\frac{3}{2},\frac{5}{2})$ hadronic molecules. The previously reported $P_c(4380)$ might be a deeper bound one. Additionally, we also study the hidden-bottom $\Sigma_b^{(\ast)}B^{(\ast)}$ systems, and predict seven bound molecular states, which could serve as a guidance for future experiments....