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The isospin breaking effect plays an essential role in generating hadronic molecular states with a very tiny binding energy. Very recently, the LHCb Collaboration observed a very narrow doubly charmed tetraquark $T_{cc}^+$ in the $D^0D^0pi$ mass spectrum, which lies just below the $D^0D^{*+}$ threshold around 273 keV. In this work, we study the $D^0D^{*+}/D^+D^{*0}$ interactions with the one-boson-exchange effective potentials and consider the isospin breaking effect carefully. We not only reproduce the mass of the newly observed $T_{cc}^+$ very well in the doubly charmed molecular tetraquark scenario, but also predict the other doubly charmed partner resonance $T_{cc}^{prime+}$ with $m=3876~text{MeV}$, and $Gamma= 412~text{keV}$. The prime decay modes of the $T_{cc}^{prime+}$ are $D^0D^+gamma$ and $D^+D^0pi^0$.
The mass and coupling of the doubly charmed $J^P=0^{-}$ diquark-antidiquark states $T_{cc;bar{s} bar{s}}^{++}$ and $T_{cc;bar{d} bar{s}}^{++}$ that bear two units of the electric charge are calculated by means of QCD two-point sum rule method. Computations are carried out by taking into account vacuum condensates up to and including terms of tenth dimension. The dominant $S$-wave decays of these tetraquarks to a pair of conventional $ D_{s}^{+}D_{s0}^{ast +}(2317)$ and $D^{+}D_{s0}^{ast +}(2317)$ mesons are explored using QCD three-point sum rule approach, and their widths are found. The obtained results $m_{T}=(4390~pm 150)~mathrm{MeV}$ and $Gamma =(302 pm 113~mathrm{MeV}$) for the mass and width of the state $T_{cc;bar{ s} bar{s}}^{++}$, as well as spectroscopic parameters $widetilde{m} _{T}=(4265pm 140)~mathrm{MeV}$ and $widetilde{Gamma }=(171~pm 52)~ mathrm{MeV}$ of the tetraquark $T_{cc;bar{d} bar{s}}^{++}$ may be useful in experimental studies of exotic resonances.
The doubly charmed exotic state $T_{cc}$ recently discovered by the LHCb Collaboration could well be a $DD^{*}$ molecular state long predicted in various theoretical models, in particular, the $DD^*$ isoscalar axial vector molecular state predicted in the one-boson-exchange model. In this work, we study the $DDD^*$ system in the Gaussian Expansion Method with the $DD^*$ interaction derived from the one-boson-exchange model and constrained by the precise binding energy of $273pm63$ keV of $T_{cc}$ with respect to the $D^{*+}D^0$ threshold. We show the existence of a $DDD^*$ state with a binding energy of a few hundred keV and spin-parity $1^-$. Its main decay modes are $DDDpi$ and $DDDgamma$. The existence of such a state could in principle be confirmed with the upcoming LHC data and will unambiguously determine the nature of the $T_{cc}^+$ state and of the many exotic state of similar kind, thus deepening our understanding of the non-perturbative strong interaction.
An exotic narrow state in the $D^0D^0pi^+$ mass spectrum just below the $D^{*+}D^0$ mass threshold is studied using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb$^{-1}$ acquired with the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8 and 13 TeV. The state is consistent with the ground isoscalar $T^+_{cc}$ tetraquark with a quark content of $ccbar{u}bar{d}$ and spin-parity quantum numbers $mathrm{J}^{mathrm{P}}=1^+$. Study of the $DD$ mass spectra disfavours interpretation of the resonance as the isovector state. The decay structure via intermediate off-shell $D^{*+}$ mesons is confirmed by the $D^0pi^+$ mass distribution. The mass of the resonance and its coupling to the $D^{*}D$ system are analysed. Resonance parameters including the pole position, scattering length, effective range and compositeness are measured to reveal important information about the nature of the $T^+_{cc}$ state. In addition, an unexpected dependence of the production rate on track multiplicity is observed.
In 2012, we investigated the possible molecular states composed of two charmed mesons [Phys.Rev. D 88, 114008 (2013), arXiv:1211.5007 [hep-ph](2012)]. The $D^*D$ system with the quantum numbers of $I(J^P)=0(1^+)$ was found to be a good candidate of the loosely bound molecular state. This state is very close to the $D^*D$ threshold with a binding energy around 0.47 MeV. This prediction was confirmed by the new LHCb observation of $T_{cc}^+$ [see Franz Muheims talk at the European Physical Society conference on high energy physics 2021].
We perform a systematic exploration of the possible doubly charmed molecular pentaquarks composed of $Sigma_c^{(*)}D^{(*)}$ with the one-boson-exchange potential model. After taking into account the $S-D$ wave mixing and the coupled channel effects, we predict several possible doubly charmed molecular pentaquarks, which include the $Sigma_cD$ with $I(J^P) = 1/2(1/2^-)$, $Sigma_c^*D$ with $1/2(3/2^-)$, and $Sigma_cD^*$ with $1/2(1/2^-)$, $1/2(3/2^-)$. The $Sigma_cD$ state with $3/2(1/2^-)$ and $Sigma_cD^*$ state with $3/2(1/2^-)$ may also be suggested as candidates of doubly charmed molecular pentaquarks. The $Sigma_cD$ and $Sigma_c^*D$ states can be searched for by analyzing the $Lambda_cDpi$ invariant mass spectrum of the bottom baryon and $B$ meson decays. The $Sigma_cD^*$ states can be searched for in the invariant mass spectrum of $Lambda_cD^*pi$, $Lambda_cDpipi$ and $Lambda_cDpigamma$. Since the width of $Sigma_c^*$ is much larger than that of $D^*$, $Sigma_c^*Drightarrow Lambda_cDpi$ will be the dominant decay mode. We sincerely hope these candidates for the doubly charmed molecular pentaqurks will be searched by LHCb or BelleII collaboration in the near future.