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We investigate the observed pentaquark candidates $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ from the latest LHCb measurement, as well as four possible spin partners in the $bar{D}^{(*)}Sigma_c^*$ system predicted from the heavy quark spin symmetry with the hadronic molecule scenarios. Similar to the previous calculation on $P_c(4380)$ and $P_c(4450)$, the partial widths of all the allowed decay channels for these $P_c$ states are estimated with the effective Lagrangian method. The cutoff dependence of our numerical results are also presented. Comparing with the experimental widths, our results show that $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ can be described well with the spin-parity-$1/2^-$-$bar{D}Sigma_c$, $1/2^-$-$bar{D}^*Sigma_c$ and $3/2^-$-$bar{D}^*Sigma_c$ molecule pictures, respectively.
Strong two- and three-body decays of the new excited hyperon $Omega^*(2012)$ are discussed in the hadronic molecular approach. The $Omega^*(2012)$ state is considered to contain the mixed $Xi bar K$ and $Omega eta$ hadronic components. In our calculations we use a phenomenological hadronic Lagrangian describing the coupling of the bound states to its constituents and of the constituents to other hadrons occurring in the final state. Our results show that the decay widths of the two-body decay modes $Omega^*(2012) to Xi bar K$ lie in the few MeV region and are compatible with or dominate over the rates of the three-body modes $Omega^*(2012) to Xi pi bar K$. The sum of two- and three-body decay widths is consistent with a width of the $Omega^*(2012)$ originally measured by the Belle Collaboration. A possible scenario for the suppression of the three-body decay rate recently noticed by the Belle Collaboration is due to the dominant admixture of the $Omega eta$ hadronic component in the $Omega^*(2012)$ state.
Recently, the Belle collaboration measured the ratios of the branching fractions of the newly observed $Omega(2012)$ excited state. They did not observe significant signals for the $Omega(2012) to bar{K} Xi^*(1530) to bar{K} pi Xi$ decay, and reported an upper limit for the ratio of the three body decay to the two body decay mode of $Omega(2012) to bar{K} Xi$. In this work, we revisit the newly observed $Omega(2012)$ from the molecular perspective where this resonance appears to be a dynamically generated state with spin-parity $3/2^-$ from the coupled channels interactions of the $bar{K} Xi^*(1530)$ and $eta Omega$ in $s$-wave and $bar{K} Xi$ in $d$-wave. With the model parameters for the $d$-wave interaction, we show that the ratio of these decay fractions reported recently by the Belle collaboration can be easily accommodated.
The hadronic decays eta, eta-prime -> 3 pi and eta-prime -> eta pi pi are investigated within the framework of U(3) chiral effective field theory in combination with a relativistic coupled-channels approach. Final state interactions are included by deriving s- and p-wave interaction kernels for meson-meson scattering from the chiral effective Lagrangian and iterating them in a Bethe-Salpeter equation. Very good overall agreement with currently available data on decay widths and spectral shapes is achieved.
We study the heavy quark spin (HQS) multiplet structure of P-wave $Qbar{Q}qqq$-type pentaquarks treated as molecules of a heavy meson and a heavy baryon. We define the light-cloud spin (LCS) basis decomposing the meson-baryon spin wavefunction into the LCS and HQS parts. Introducing the LCS basis, we find HQS multiplets classified by the LCS; five HQS singlets, two HQS doublets, and three HQS triplets. We construct the one-pion exchange potential respecting the heavy quark spin and chiral symmetries to demonstrate which HQS multiplets are realized as a bound state. By solving the coupled channel Schrodinger equations, we study the heavy meson-baryon systems with $I=1/2$ and $J^P=(1/2^+, 3/2^+, 5/2^+, 7/2^+)$. The bound states which have same LCS structure are degenerate at the heavy quark limit, and the degeneracy is resolved for finite mass. This HQS multiplet structure will be measured in the future experiments.
The newly measurement of production fractions of $P_c$ states by LHCb collaboration have put restriction on their branching ratios of $J/psi p$ decay, thus constraining their photoproduction in $gamma pto J/psi p$ reaction. We show the tension between LHCb results and the current experiments in search of $P_c$ photoproduction. We also find that the present information of branching ratios of $P_cto J/psi p$ has already confronted sharply with the models which study the nature of $P_c$.