Lhcb Results on Penta(Tetra)-Quark Search
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LHCb results on penta(tetra)-quark search Marcin Kucharczyk1 (on behalf of the LHCb collaboration) 1Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland E-mail: [email protected] (Received October 17, 2016) The LHCb experiment is designed to study the properties and decays of heavy flavored hadrons produced in pp collisions at the LHC. The data collected in the LHC Run I enables precision spec- troscopy studies of beauty and charm hadrons. The latest results on spectroscopy of conventional and exotic hadrons are reviewed, such as the discovery of the first charmonium pentaquark states in the J/ψp system or the confirmation of resonant nature of the Z(4430)− mesonic state. LHCb has also made significant contributions to determination of the quantum numbers for the X(3872) state and to exclude the existence of the X(5568) tetraquark candidate. The LHCb results described in the present document have dramatically increased the interest on spectroscopy of heavy hadrons. KEYWORDS: pentaquarks, heavy flavor spectroscopy, exotic states 1. Introduction In the simple quark model, only two types of quark combinations are required to account for the existing hadrons, i.e. qq¯ combinations form mesons, while baryons are made up of three quarks. How- ever, in the quark model proposed by Gell-Mann and Zweig in 1960s [1] other SU(3) color-neutral combinations of quarks and gluons such as gg glueballs, qqg¯ hybrids, qqq¯ q¯ tetraquarks,qqqqq ¯ pen- taquarks etc. were predicted. The world’s largest data sample of beauty and charm hadrons collected by LHCb during LHC Run I provides great opportunities for studying the production and properties of heavy hadrons. Since such exotic states are experimentally hard to find in the light quark sector, the first discovery of the narrow exotic tetraquark state X(3872) by the Belle collaboration [2] was made only in 2003, leading to a revolution in the exotic hadron spectroscopy. Up to now several other exotic states have been observed, all involving heavy quark systems. The LHCb experiment has al- ready collected an impressive set of results on exotic heavy flavour states, with the first unambiguous spin-parity assignments of the X(3872) [3], confirmation of resonant nature of the Z(4430)− [4] or ob- + + Λ0 → − servation of two resonant states, Pc(4380) and Pc(4450) in the decay b J/ψpK [5], which are consistent with charmonium pentaquarks. The present document describes some recent results from LHCb in exotic hadron spectroscopy. For all the studies the LHCb data corresponding to 3 fb−1of integrated luminosity in 7 and 8 TeV pp collisions has been used. 2. Pentaquark candidates in Λ0 → J/ψpK− b Λ0 → − −1 First observation of the b J/ψpK with 1 f b had unexpected large yield. It was orig- Λ0 ± inally used to precisely measure the b lifetime [6]. The sample of 26,007 166 signal candidates subtracted of 5.4% background candidates within ±15 MeV of the J/ψK− p mass peak has been se- lected using full Run I dataset. An anomalous peaking structure in the J/ψp invariant mass spectrum might be observed on the Dalitz plot shown in Fig. 1. Since the contribution of Λ∗ → K− p reso- 2 nances corresponding to the vertical bands only dominates the low mKp region, it is unlikely that the 1.