Mass Predictions of Vector ($1^{--}$) Double-gluon Heavy Quarkonium Hybrids from QCD Sum Rules

TL;DR

This paper predicts the masses of vector double-gluon heavy quarkonium hybrids using QCD sum rules, providing specific mass ranges and decay channels for experimental searches.

Contribution

It introduces a QCD sum rule calculation for $1^{--}$ double-gluon charmonium and bottomonium hybrids, including contributions up to dimension eight at leading order.

Findings

Mass of $ar{c}ggc$ hybrid: 5.33-5.90 GeV

Mass of $ar{b}ggb$ hybrid: 11.20-11.68 GeV

Proposes decay channels for experimental detection

Abstract

In this work, we study the $1^{--}$ double-gluon charmonium ($\bar{c}ggc$) and bottomonium ($\bar{b} gg b$) hybrids in terms of QCD sum rules. We find that the mass of $\bar{c}ggc$ hybrid lies in $M_{H_{c}}$ = $5.33 \sim 5.90$ GeV, while in the bottom sector the mass of $\bar{b}ggb$ hybrid may be situated in $M_{H_b} = 11.20 \sim 11.68$ GeV. The contributions up to dimension eight at leading order of $\alpha_s$ (LO) in the operator product expansion are taken into account in the calculation. The double-gluon charmonium hybrid meson predicted in this work can decay into a pair of charmed mesons or a pair of charmed mesons together with a light meson. Especially, we propose to search for $\bar{c}ggc$ hybrid with $I^G(J^{PC})= 0^-(1^{--})$ in their decay channels $D \bar{D}/D^* \bar{D}/D^{*} \bar{D}^{*}$ with P wave and $D^* \bar{D}^{*} \pi/D^* \bar{D}^*\eta/D \bar{D}\rho/D \bar{D}\omega$ with S wave, which may be accessible in Belle II, PANDA, Super-B, GlueX, and LHCb experiments.