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Since the discovery of the $X(3872)$ the study of heavy meson molecules has been the subject of many investigations. On the experimental side different experiments have looked for its spin partners and the bottom analogs. On the theoretical side different approaches have been used to understand this state. Some of them are EFT that impose HQSS and so they make predictions for the partners of the $X(3872)$, suggesting the existence of a $J^{PC}=2^{++}$ partner in the charm sector or $J^{PC}=1^{++}$ or $2^{++}$ analogs in the bottom. In our work, in order to understand the $X(3872)$, we use a Chiral quark model in which, due to the proximity to the $DD^*$ threshold, we include $cbar c$ states coupled to $DD^*$ molecular components. In this coupled channel model the relative position of the bare $cbar c$ states with two meson thresholds are very important. We have looked for the $X(3872)$ partners and we dont find a bound state in the $D^*D^*$ $J^{PC}=2^{++}$. In the bottom sector we find the opposite situation where the $B^*B^*$ with $J^{PC}=2^{++}$ is bounded while the $J^{PC}=1^{++}$ is not bounded. These results shows how the coupling with $cbar c$ states can induced different results than those expected by HQSS. The reason is that this symmetry is worse in the open heavy meson sector than in the hidden heavy meson sector.
We consider the $X(3872)$ resonance as a $J^{PC}=1^{++}$ $Dbar D^*$ hadronic molecule. According to heavy quark spin symmetry, there will exist a partner with quantum numbers $2^{++}$, $X_{2}$, which would be a $D^*bar D^*$ loosely bound state. The $X_{2}$ is expected to decay dominantly into $Dbar D$, $Dbar D^*$ and $bar D D^*$ in $d$-wave. In this work, we calculate the decay widths of the $X_{2}$ resonance into the above channels, as well as those of its bottom partner, $X_{b2}$, the mass of which comes from assuming heavy flavor symmetry for the contact terms. We find partial widths of the $X_{2}$ and $X_{b2}$ of the order of a few MeV. Finally, we also study the radiative $X_2to Dbar D^{*}gamma$ and $X_{b2} to bar B B^{*}gamma$ decays. These decay modes are more sensitive to the long-distance structure of the resonances and to the $Dbar D^{*}$ or $Bbar B^{*}$ final state interaction.
In this letter, we propose interpolating currents for the X(3872) resonance, and show that, in the Heavy Quark limit of QCD, the X(3872) state should have degenerate partners, independent of its internal structure. Magnitudes of possible I=0 and I=1 components of the X(3872) are also discussed.
In this work, an Effective Field Theory (EFT) incorporating light SU(3)-flavour and heavy quark spin symmetry is used to describe charmed meson-antimeson bound states. At Lowest Order (LO), this means that only contact range interactions among the heavy meson and antimeson fields are involved. Besides, the isospin violating decays of the X(3872) will be used to constrain the interaction between the $D$ and a $bar{D}^*$ mesons in the isovector channel. Finally, assuming that the X(3915) and Y(4140) resonances are $D^*bar{D}^*$ and $D_s^*bar{D}_s^*$ molecular states, we can determine the four Low Energy Constants (LECs) of the EFT that appear at LO and, therefore, the full spectrum of molecular states with isospin I=0, 1/2 and 1.
It was recently proposed that the $X(3872)$ binding energy, the difference between the $D^0bar D^{*0}$ threshold and the $X(3872)$ mass, can be precisely determined by measuring the $gamma X(3872)$ line shape from a short-distance $D^{*0}bar D^{*0}$ source produced at high-energy experiments. Here, we investigate the feasibility of such a proposal by estimating the cross sections for the $e^+e^-topi^0gamma X(3872)$ and $pbar ptogamma X(3872)$ processes considering the $D^{*0}bar D^{*0}D^0/bar D^{*0}D^{*0}bar D^0$ triangle loops. These loops can produce a triangle singularity slightly above the $D^{*0}bar D^{*0}$ threshold. It is found that the peak structures originating from the $D^{*0}bar D^{*0}$ threshold cusp and the triangle singularity are not altered much by the energy dependence introduced by the $e^+e^-topi^0D^{*0}bar D^{*0}$ and $pbar ptobar D^{*0}D^{*0}$ production parts or by considering a finite width for the $X(3872)$. We find that $sigma(e^+e^-topi^0gamma X(3872)) times {rm Br}(X(3872)topi^+pi^-J/psi)$ is $mathcal{O}(0.1~{rm fb})$ with the $gamma X(3872)$ invariant mass integrated from 4.01 to 4.02 GeV and the c.m. energy of the $e^+e^-$ pair fixed at 4.23 GeV. The cross section $sigma(pbar ptogamma X(3872))times {rm Br}(X(3872)topi^+pi^-J/psi)$ is estimated to be of $mathcal{O}(10~{rm pb})$. Our results suggest that a precise measurement of the $X(3872)$ binding energy can be done at PANDA.
We investigate heavy quark symmetries for heavy meson hadronic molecules, and explore the consequences of assuming the X(3872) and $Z_b(10610)$ as an isoscalar $Dbar D^*$ and an isovector $Bbar B^*$ hadronic molecules, respectively. The symmetry allows to predict new hadronic molecules, in particular we find an isoscalar $1^{++}$ $Bbar B^*$ bound state with a mass about 10580 MeV and the isovector charmonium partners of the $Z_b(10610)$ and the $Z_b(10650)$ states. Next, we study the $X(3872) to D^0 bar D^0pi^0$ three body decay. This decay mode is more sensitive to the long-distance structure of the X(3872) resonance than its $J/psipipi$ and $J/psi3pi$ decays, which are mainly controlled by the short distance part of the X(3872) molecular wave function. We discuss the $D^0 bar D^0$ final state interactions, which in some situations become quite important. Indeed in these cases, a precise measurement of this partial decay width could provide precise information on the interaction strength between the $D^{(*)}bar D^{(*)}$ charm mesons.