A survey of heavy-heavy hadronic molecules

The spectrum of hadronic molecules composed of heavy-antiheavy charmed hadrons has been obtained in our previous work. The potentials are constants at the leading order, which are estimated from resonance saturation. The experimental candidates of hadronic molecules, say $X(3872)$, $Y(4260)$, three $P_c$ states and $P_{cs}(4459)$, fit the spectrum well. The success in describing the pattern of heavy-antiheavy hadronic molecules stimulates us to give more predictions for the heavy-heavy cases, which are less discussed in literature than the heavy-antiheavy ones. Given that the heavy-antiheavy hadronic molecules, several of which have strong experimental evidence, emerge from the dominant constant interaction from resonance saturation, we find that the existence of many heavy-heavy hadronic molecules is natural. Among these predicted heavy-heavy states we highlight the $DD^*$ molecule and the $D^{(*)}Sigma_c^{(*)}$ molecules, which are the partners of famous $X(3872)$ and $P_c$ states. Quite recently, LHCb collaboration reported a doubly charmed tetraquark state, $T_{cc}$, which is in line with our results for the $DD^*$ molecule. With the first experimental signal of this new kind of exotic states, the upcoming update of the LHCb experiment as well as other experiments will provide more chances of observing the heavy-heavy hadronic molecules.

Is the existence of a $J/psi J/psi$ bound state plausible?

In a recent measurement LHCb reported pronounced structures in the $J/psi J/psi$ spectrum. One of the various possible explanations of those is that they emerge from non-perturbative interactions of vector charmonia. It is thus important to understand whether it is possible to form a bound state of two charmonia interacting through the exchange of gluons, which hadronise into two pions at the longest distance. In this paper, we demonstrate that, given our current understanding of hadron-hadron interactions, the exchange of correlated light mesons (pions and kaons) is able to provide sizeable attraction to the di-$J/psi$ system, and it is possible for two $J/psi$ mesons to form a bound state. As a side result we find from an analysis of the data for the $psi(2S)to J/psi pipi$ transition including both $pipi$ and $Kbar K$ final state interactions an improved value for the $psi(2S)to J/psi$ transition chromo-electric polarisability: $|alpha_{psi(2S)J/psi}|= (1.8pm 0.1)~mbox{GeV}^{-3}$, where the uncertainty also includes the one induced by the final state interactions.

A survey of heavy-antiheavy hadronic molecules

Many efforts have been made to reveal the nature of the overabundant resonant structures observed by the worldwide experiments in the last two decades. Hadronic molecules attract special attention because many of these seemingly unconventional resonances are located close to the threshold of a pair of hadrons. To give an overall feature of the spectrum of hadronic molecules composed of a pair of heavy-antiheavy hadrons, namely, which pairs are possible to form molecular states, we take charmed hadrons for example to investigate the interaction between them and search for poles by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation. We consider all possible combinations of hadron pairs of the $S$-wave singly-charmed mesons and baryons as well as the narrow $P$-wave charmed mesons. The interactions, which are assumed to be meson-exchange saturated, are described by constant contact terms which are resummed to generate poles. It turns out that if a system is attractive near threshold by the light meson exchange, there is a pole close to threshold corresponding to a bound state or a virtual state, depending on the strength of interaction and the cutoff. In total, 229 molecular states are predicted. The observed near-threshold structures with hidden-charm, like the famous $X(3872)$ and $P_c$ states, fit into the spectrum we obtain. We also highlight a $Lambda_cbar Lambda_c$ bound state that has a pole consistent with the cross section of the $e^+e^-toLambda_cbar Lambda_c$ precisely measured by the BESIII Collaboration.

Explaining the Many Threshold Structures in the Heavy-Quark Hadron Spectrum

Tremendous progress has been made experimentally in the hadron spectrum containing heavy quarks in the last two decades. It is surprising that many resonant structures are around thresholds of a pair of heavy hadrons. There should be a threshold cusp at any $S$-wave threshold. By constructing a nonrelativistic effective field theory with open channels, we discuss the generalities of threshold behavior, and offer an explanation of the abundance of near-threshold peaks in the heavy quarkonium regime. We show that the threshold cusp can show up as a peak only for channels with attractive interaction, and the width of the cusp is inversely proportional to the reduced mass relevant for the threshold. We argue that there should be threshold structures at any threshold of a pair of heavy-quark and heavy-antiquark hadrons, which have attractive interaction at threshold, in the invariant mass distribution of a heavy quarkonium and light hadrons that couple to that open-flavor hadron pair. The structure becomes more pronounced if there is a near-threshold pole. Predictions of the possible pairs are also given for the ground state heavy hadrons. Precisely measuring the threshold structures will play an important role in revealing the heavy-hadron interactions, and thus understanding the puzzling hidden-charm and hidden-bottom structures.

Prediction of possible $DK_1$ bound states

Stimulated by recent experimental observation of $X_1(2900)$ just below the $bar D_1K$ threshold, we extend our previous study of $bar D_1D$ S-wave bound state by vector meson exchange to $bar D_1K$ system as well as similar $bar DK_1$, $D_1K$ and $DK_1$ systems to look for possible bound states. We find that the potential of $D K_1$ is attractive and strong enough to form bound states with mass around 3110 MeV for $DK_1(1270)$ and 3240 MeV for $DK_1(1400)$. $D_1 K$ is also attractive but weaker, hardly enough to form bound states. While $bar DK_1$ becomes further less attractive, the potential between $bar D_1 K$ is the weakest, definitely too weak to form any bound state, which excludes the recently observed $X_1(2900)$ to be a $bar D_1 K$ bound state. We also give the decay properties of the predicted $D K_1$ bound states.