PHYSICAL REVIEW D 99, 094023 (2019)
Where is the stable pentaquark?
† ‡ Woosung Park,1,* Sungtae Cho,2, and Su Houng Lee1, 1Department of Physics and Institute of Physics and Applied Physics, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea 2Division of Science Education, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon 24341, Korea
(Received 5 December 2018; published 16 May 2019)
We systematically analyze the flavor color spin structure of the pentaquark q4Q¯ system in a constituent quark model based on the chromomagnetic interaction in both the SU(3) flavor symmetric and SU(3) flavor broken case with and without charm quarks. We show that the originally proposed pentaquark state Qsqqq¯ by Gignoux et al. and by Lipkin indeed belongs to the most stable pentaquark configuration, but that when charm quark mass correction based on recent experiments are taken into account, a doubly charmed antistrange pentaquark configuration Pcc (udccs¯) could be the most attractive flavor exotic configuration þ − þ that could be stable and realistically searched for at present through the Pcc → ΛcK K π final states. The þ þ þþ − þ þ proposed final state is just reconstructing K instead of π in the measurement of Ξcc → ΛcK π π reported by the LHCb collaboration and hence measurable immediately.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.094023
I. INTRODUCTION In this work, we systematically analyze the color flavor The possible existence of mutiquark hadrons beyond the spin structure of the pentaquark configuration within a ordinary hadrons was first discussed for the tetraquark states constituent quark model based on chromomagnetic inter- in Refs. [1,2] and for the H-dibaryon in Ref. [3]. Later, action. We show that the originally proposed pentaquark Qsqqq¯ possible stable pentaquark configurations Qsqqq¯ were state indeed belongs to the most stable pentaquark proposed in Ref. [4] and in Ref. [5]. The long experimental configuration, but that when charm quark mass correction search for the H-dibaryon has not been successful so far but based on recent experiments is taken into account, a doubly P udccs¯ is still planned at JPARC [6]. The search by Fermilab E791 charmed antistrange pentaquark configuration cc ( ) [7] for the proposed pentaquark state also failed to find any could be the most attractive flavor exotic configuration that significant signal for the exotic configurations. could be stable and realistically searched for at present. ð4Þ On the other hand, starting from the Xð3872Þ [8], possible It is useful to view the classification in terms of SU F, which deserves a full analysis in our approach in the exotic meson configurations XYZ and the pentaquark Pc [9] were recently found. These states are not flavor exotic but future. It can be shown that the most stable configuration 140 are known to contain cc¯ quarks. Heavy quarks were for that we find belongs to a multiplet in such a scheme many years considered to be stable color sources that would [18]. Here, we are restricting our discussion to categoriz- allow for a stable multiquark configuration that does not ing the four quark structure in terms of the light flavors. fall into usual hadrons. In particular, with the recent This is so because the color spin interaction effects are experimental confirmation of the doubly charmed baryon suppressed when a heavy quark is involved. Hence, for a [10–12], there is new excitement in the physics of exotics in first order estimate, our analysis should be a valid general and in hiterto unobserved flavor exotic states with starting point. more than one heavy quarks [13–17]. II. SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF q4Q¯ We first discuss the classification of the flavor, color and spin wave function for the ground state of the pentaquark *[email protected] † q4 Q c¯ [email protected] composed of light quarks and one heavy antiquark ( or ‡ ¯ [email protected] b) assuming that the spatial parts of the wave function for all quarks are in the s-wave. We categorize them into the flavor Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of states in SUð3ÞF, and then examine the color ⊗ spin states. the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. q4 Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to The flavor states for can be decomposed into the the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, direct sum of the irreducible representation of SUð3ÞF as and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3. follows:
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TABLE I. The SUð6ÞCS representations containing the ½1C;S interaction relevant for the pentaquark configuration, which multiplet. is similar to that of a tetraquark in Ref. [2], by introducing the quadratic Casimir operator of SUð6Þ , which is denoted SUð3Þ ⊗ SUð2Þ state SUð6Þ representation CS C S CS by C6: 4 2 2 3 ½1C; 1=2 ½2 1 , ½32 1 , [21], ½421 X5 3 2 2 2 3 3 c c 6 6 3 3 ½1C; 3=2 ½1 , ½32 1 , ½3 1 , ½421 − λi λj σ⃗i · σ⃗j ¼ 4C5 − 8C4 − 2C5 þ 4C4 2 2 i