Hadronic molecules composed of a doubly charmed tetraquark state and a charmed meson

TL;DR

This paper predicts a new class of hadronic molecules formed by doubly charmed tetraquarks and charmed mesons using effective field theory, expanding understanding of exotic hadron structures.

Contribution

It introduces a systematic study of $ar{D}^{( ext{*})}T_{ar{c}ar{c}}^{( ext{*})}$ systems, revealing a complete heavy quark spin symmetry multiplet of such molecules.

Findings

Existence of a heavy quark spin symmetry multiplet of hadronic molecules.

Prediction of bound states involving doubly charmed tetraquarks and charmed mesons.

Potential Coulomb-bound $ar{ ext{o}} ext{mega}_{ccc}p$ system.

Abstract

The three pentaquark states, $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$, discovered by the LHCb Collaboration in 2019, can be arranged into a complete heavy quark spin symmetry multiplet of hadronic molecules of $\bar{D}^{(\ast)}\Sigma_{c}^{(\ast)}$. In the heavy quark mass limit, the $\Sigma_{c}^{(\ast)}$ baryons can be related to the doubly charmed tetraquark states of isospin 1, i.e., $T_{\bar{c}\bar{c}}^{(\ast)}$( $T_{\bar{c}\bar{c}}^{0}$, $T_{\bar{c}\bar{c}}^{1}$, $T_{\bar{c}\bar{c}}^{2}$), via heavy antiquark diquark symmetry, which dictates that the $\bar{D}^{(\ast)}\Sigma_{c}^{(\ast)}$ interactions are the same as the $\bar{D}^{(\ast)}T_{\bar{c}\bar{c}}^{(\ast)}$ interactions up to { heavy antiquark diquark symmetry} breakings. In this work, we employ the contact-range effective field theory to systematically study the $\bar{D}^{(\ast)}T_{\bar{c}\bar{c}}^{(\ast)}$ systems, and we show the existence of a complete heavy quark spin symmetry multiplet of hadronic molecules composed of a doubly charmed tetraquark state and a charmed meson. These are a new kind of hadronic molecules and, if discovered, can lead to a better understanding of the many exotic hadrons discovered so far. In addition, we summarise the triply charmed hexaquark states formed by different combinations of hadrons. In particular, we show that $\bar{\Omega}_{ccc}{p}$ system can bind by the Coulomb force, which is analogous to a hydrogenlike atom.