Revisiting the $Omega(2012)$ as a hadronic molecule and its strong decays


Abstract in English

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.

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