We find that several thresholds can contribute to the enhancements of the newly observed heavy pentaquark candidates $P_c^+(4380)$ and $P_c^+(4450)$ via the anomalous triangle singularity (ATS) transitions in the specific kinematics of $Lambda_bto J/psi K^- p$. Apart from the observed two peaks we find that another peaks around 4.5 GeV can also be produced by the ATS. We also show that the $Sigma_c^{(*)}$ can be produced at leading order in $Lambda_b$ decay. This process is different from the triangle diagram and its threshold enhancement only appears as CUSP effects if there is no pole structure or the ATS involved. The threshold interaction associated with the presence of the ATS turns out to be a general phenomenon and plays a crucial role in the understanding of candidates for exotic states.
We investigate the reaction $pi^- p to pi^- J/psi p$ via the open-charm hadron rescattering diagrams. Due to the presence of the triangle singularity (TS) in the rescattering amplitudes, the TS peaks can simulate the pentaquark-like resonances arising in the $J/psi p$ invariant mass distributions, which may bring ambiguities on our understanding of the nature of the exotic states. Searching for the heavy pentaquark in different processes may help us to clarify the ambiguities, because of the highly process-dependent characteristic of the TS mechanism.
We investigate the properties of the hidden charm pentaquark-like resonances first observed by LHCb in 2015, by measuring the polarization transfer KLL between the incident photon and the outgoing proton in the exclusive photoproduction of J/psi near threshold. We present a first estimate of the sensitivity of this observable to the pentaquark photocouplings and hadronic branching ratios, and extend our predictions to the case of initial state helicity correlation ALL, using a polarized target. These results serve as a benchmark for the SBS experiment at Jefferson Lab, which proposes to measure for the first time the helicity correlations ALL and KLL in J/psi exclusive photoproduction, in order to determine the pentaquark photocouplings and branching ratios.
After the discovery of the new $Omega^{*}$ state, the ratio of the branching fractions of $Omega(2012)to bar{K}piXi$ relative to $bar{K}Xi$ decay channel was investigated by the Belle Collaboration recently. The measured $11.9%$ up limit on this ratio is in sharp tension with the $S$-wave $bar{K}Xi(1530)$ molecule interpretation for $Omega(2012)$ which indicates the dominant $bar{K}piXi$ three-body decay. In the present work, we try to explore the possibility of the $P$-wave molecule assignments for $Omega(2012)$ (where $Omega(2012)$ has positive parity). It is found that the latest experimental measurements are compatible with the $1/2^+$ and $3/2^+$ $bar{K}Xi(1530)$ molecular pictures, while the $5/2^+$ $bar{K}Xi(1530)$ molecule shows the larger $bar{K}piXi$ three-body decay compared with the $bar{K}Xi$ decay as the case of $S$-wave molecule. Thus, the newly observed $Omega(2012)$ can be interpreted as the $1/2^+$ or $3/2^+$ $bar{K}Xi(1530)$ molecule state according to current experiment data.
We study the newly reported hidden-charm pentaquark candidates $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ from the LHCb Collaboration, in the framework of the effective-range expansion and resonance compositeness relations. The scattering lengths and effective ranges from the $S$-wave $Sigma_cbar{D}$ and $Sigma_cbar{D}^*$ scattering are calculated by using the experimental results of the masses and widths of the $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$. Then we calculate the couplings between the $J/psi p,,Sigma_cbar{D}$ channels and the pentaquark candidate $P_c(4312)$, with which we further estimate the probabilities of finding the $J/psi p$ and $Sigma_cbar{D}$ components inside $P_c(4312)$. The partial decay widths and compositeness coefficients are calculated for the $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ states by including the $J/psi p$ and $Sigma_cbar{D}^*$ channels. Similar studies are also carried out for the three $P_c$ states by including the $Lambda_cbar{D}^{*}$ and $Sigma_cbar{D}^{(*)}$ channels.