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Pentaquark, Charmonium-Pentaquark Journal of Nuclear and Particle Physics 2015, 5(4): 84-87 DOI: 10.5923/j.jnpp.20150504.03 A Preliminary Explanation for the Pentaquark + Pc Found by LHCb Mario Everaldo de Souza Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Av. Marechal Rondon, s/n, Rosa Elze, São Cristóvão, SE, Brazil + Abstract We propose that the two resonant states of the recently found pentaquark Pc with masses of 4380 MeV and 4450 MeV are two states of the hadronic molecule cc⊕ uud with similar properties to those of the Karliner-Lipkin pentaquark. Applying the Morse molecular potential to the molecule its minimum size is estimated. If S states exist, the first two possible S states are suggested and their energies are estimated. It is shown that the coupling constant is close to that of charmonium, and this may mean Physics Beyond the Standard Model. Keywords Pentaquark, Charmonium-pentaquark the masses below were taken from the Particle Data Group 1. Introduction [13]. The idea of the pentaquark was firstly proposed by Strottman in 1979 [1]. In 2004 Karliner and Lipkin proposed P + a very important model for a pentaquark in the description of 2. A Simple Model for the LHCb c + + the Θ [2]. They arrived at the conclusion that the bag We propose that the recently found LHCb P is model commonly used for hadrons may not be adequate for c the pentaquark. In their model they propose that the composed of two colorless clusters, a meson and a baryon. + pentaquark system is composed of two clusters, a diquark The quark content of the Pc pentaquark, uccud allows and a triquark, in a relative P-wave state. The clusters in this the two possibilities cc⊕ uud and uc⊕ cud , but as the system can be separated by a distance larger than the range of Ψ the color-magnetic force which had been proposed by De final decay is Jp/ we should rule out the second Rujula, Georgi and Glashow [3]. possibility. The symbol ⊕ is used to designate the binding It is important to recall that many authors have considered between the two clusters. According to QCD, we expect the the possibility of binding between J / Ψ and nuclei. two clusters to be weakly bound because hadrons are Among them we can cite [4-11]. They have raised some colorless. important observations concerning the interaction such as The most famous hadronic molecule is the deuteron, also that meson exchange is suppressed by the OZI rule because constituted of colorless particles. Because the two particles J / Ψ and nuclei do not have quarks in common and also (nucleons) are colorless the binding is very weak, just about single gluon exchange is forbidden so that the interaction 2.2 MeV. But in the case of the cc⊕ uud we do not know should happen due to multiple-gluon exchange. what kind of binding energy we have. Between two nucleons The LHCb Collaboration has recently [12] announced the the nuclear force is a residual effect of the more fundamental discovery of pentaquark-charmonium states which resulted forces of the color field in the quark systems, but we still do +− + not know the nature of the force responsible for the binding from the Λ0 exotic decay Λ→0 PK , in which P b bc c between J / Ψ and the proton in the molecule cc⊕ uud . is a pentaquark with the quark content uccud . The two We can estimate below the minimum value for the binding resonant states have masses of about 4380 MeV and 4450 energy. MeV in opposite parities with the preferred values for J = 3/2,5/2 and with the corresponding Γ ’s of 205±± 18 86 MeV and 39±± 5 19 MeV. All the data for 3. Possibilities for the Angular Momenta * Corresponding author: As the final decay is Jp/ Ψ we should consider the two [email protected] (Mario Everaldo de Souza) possibilities for the molecule: cc( S=⊕= 1) uud (S 1 / 2) Published online at http://journal.sapub.org/jnpp Copyright © 2015 Scientific & Academic Publishing. All Rights Reserved and cc( S=⊕= 1) uud (S 3 / 2) . cc( S = 1) is J/Psi and Journal of Nuclear and Particle Physics 2015, 5(4): 84-87 85 uud( S = 3 / 2) is the resonance N(1520) whose mass is for the vibrational and rotational levels above the minimum actually about 1515 MeV. The sum of the masses 3096 of the potential, where the quantum numbers MeV+1515 MeV = 4611 MeV is much higher than 4380 υ,L = 0,1,2,3,... In Eq. 3 the first term describes harmonic MeV and 4450 MeV. Therefore, we should consider only the vibrations, the second term takes into account the first possibility. In order to reproduce the experimental anharmonicity of the potential, the third term describes values of J = 3/2,5/2 we should have L = 1, 2 for the rotations with constant moment of inertia, the fourth term molecule. Taking into account the Karliner-Lipkin model [2] represents the centrifugal distortion and the fifth term in which the clusters are in a relative P-wave state, we can represents the coupling between vibration and rotation. The + 22 constant BL is given by BaL = /2µ where µ is the propose that the levels found by LHCb for the Pc system reduced mass of the system. are in relative P-wave and D-wave states. The possibility of + S states is discussed below, in section V. In the case of Pc we only have two levels, one for L=1 Let us now analyze the angular momenta of the molecule and another for L=2 for ν = 0 in Eq. 3 Therefore we can cc( S=⊕= 1) uud (S 1 / 2) and its components. Composing only determine two parameters of the above formula. The the two spins we obtain = . With = and S 1/2,3/2 L 1 largest parameters in Eq. (3) are ω and BL . In general − − S = 1 we have J = 1 , 3 , and for S = 3 we have A is not very small compared with ω , but for ν = 0 the 2 22 2 nd − −− 2 term is −A /4 while the first one is ω /2, and thus, J = 1 ,,35. With L = 2 and S = 1 we have nd 222 2 the first term has a much larger contribution than the 2 term. ++ Moreover, the inclusion of A would not change the value J = 35, , and for S = 3 we have 22 2 of BL in our fitting because the two levels 4380 MeV and + +++ J = 1 ,,,357. We see that the most favored 4450 MeV have ν = 0 . The inclusion of A would 2222 th th − −++ increase slightly the value of ω . The 4 and 5 terms are values for J are 1 ,,,335. rd 2222 much smaller than the 3 term. So, due to lack of data we can only have 1 4. The Approximate Size of the Molecule ω 0+ +BL 1( 1 += 1) 4380 ± 309 2 (4) We have no idea yet on the kind of effective potential that 1 + ω 0+ +BL 2( 2 += 1) 4450 ± 63 exists in the Pc system. Assuming that there is a potential 2 well we may model the system through a molecular potential which yield = ± MeV and ω = ± and obtain some important numbers. It is important to notice BL 17.5 61.5 9110 864 that the components of the system are heavy and, thus, we 22 MeV. Using the relation BaL = /2µ we find can use the Schrödinger equation in the description of the a = 1.25 fm but with a large uncertainty due to the large system. Recently, de Souza [14, 15] has used the Morse molecular potential in the description of charmonium and uncertainty of BL . bottomonium states. The Morse molecular potential can be There are some available data for the radii of the proton expressed as [16] and charmonium that allows us to have more information on the molecule cc⊕ uud . The size of cc (/J Ψ ) is about Vr()= De( −−2ααxx − 2 e ) (1) 0.35± 0.06 fm [15] and the proton radius (charge radius) where −D is the minimum of the well, a is the distance has been reported as being 0.8879 fm [18], 0.8775 fm [19], where VD= − , and x=( raa − ) / . and 0.84087 fm [20, 21]. Summing the radii of cc and the proton we obtain about 1.2 fm which is very close to the For x < 1 this potential can be expanded around the + value of a . But P in states with L=1 and L=2 is larger minimum up to order 3 in x and the expression c than 1.25 fm, of course, because the wave functions of L 1 L V() x=−+ D ka22 x −λ ka 33 x (2) states contain the term r . It is only worth making the 2 calculation when we obtain a much smaller value for the Γ is obtained where λα= /2a . of the 4380 MeV level, and thus, as a consequence, a more For this potential the solution of the Schrödinger equation precise value for BL. yields the expression [16, 17] 2 11 + Enl =ωυ +−A υ + + BLLL ( + 1) 5. The First Levels of the Molecule Pc 22 (3) In our model above ν corresponds to n −1 in QCD 221 −DLLL( L + 1) − Cυ υ + LL( ++ 1) ... models, that is, n=ν +1. Thus, the two states 4380 MeV and 2 + P 86 Mario Everaldo de Souza: A Preliminary Explanation for the Pentaquark c Found by LHCb 4450 MeV are the states 1P and 1D , respectively.
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