Strong decays of the latest LHCb pentaquark candidates in hadronic molecule pictures


Abstract in English

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.

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