Eur. Phys. J. C (2018) 78:114
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5597-3
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
c
excited states within a SU(6)
lsf
× HQSS model
J. Nieves
1
,R.Pavao
1
, L. Tolos
2,3,4,5,a
1
Instituto de Física Corpuscular (centro mixto CSIC-UV), Institutos de Investigación de Paterna, Aptdo. 22085, 46071 Valencia, Spain
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, University of Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
3
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Frankfurt, Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
4
Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSIC), Campus UAB, Carrer de Can Magrans, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
5
Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), 08034 Barcelona, Spain
Received: 1 December 2017 / Accepted: 26 January 2018
© The Author(s) 2018. This article is an open access publication
Abstract We have reviewed the renormalization procedure
used in the unitarized coupled-channel model of Romanets
et al. (Phys Rev D 85:114032, 2012), and its impact in the
C = 1, S =−2, and I = 0 sector, where five
(∗)
c
states
have been recently observed by the LHCb Collaboration. The
meson-baryon interactions used in the model are consistent
with both chiral and heavy-quark spin symmetries, and lead
to a successful description of the observed lowest-lying odd
parity resonances
c
(2595) and
c
(2625), and
b
(5912)
and
b
(5920) resonances. We show that some (probably at
least three) of the states observed by LHCb will also have odd
parity and J = 1/2orJ = 3/2, belonging two of them to
the same SU(6)
light-spin-flavor
×HQSS multiplets as the latter
charmed and beauty baryons.
1 Introduction
The LHCb Collaboration [1] has recently reported the exis-
tence of five
c
states, analyzing the
+
c
K
−
spectrum in
pp collisions, with masses ranging between 3 and 3.1 GeV.
These results have renewed the interest in baryon spec-
troscopy, with the long-standing question whether these
states can be accommodated within the quark model pic-
ture and/or qualify better as being dynamically generated via
hadron-hadron scattering processes.
Earlier predictions for such states have been reported
within conventional quark models [2–13]. The experimental
discovery of the five
c
states has triggered a large activity in
the field, and thus some quark models have been revisited in
view of the new results [14–20], suggestions as pentaquarks
have been advocated [21–25], models based on QCD sum-
rules have been put to test [26–32], or quark-soliton models
a
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have been employed [33]. Also, Lattice QCD has reported
results on the spectroscopy of
c
states [34].
Within molecular models, there have been previous pre-
dictions on
c
states [35–38]. In Ref. [36] several reso-
nant states were obtained with masses much below 3 GeV,
by employing a zero-range exchange of vector mesons as
the bare interaction for the s-wave baryon-meson scatter-
ing. Similar qualitative results were obtained in Ref. [35],
where finite range effects were considered. Lately the work
of Ref. [39] has revisited Ref. [36], finding that, after mod-
ifying the regularization scheme with physically motivated
parameters, two
c
resonant states were generated at 3050
and 3090 MeV with spin-parity J
P
= 1/2
−
, reproducing
the masses and widths of two of the experimental states.
More recently, the
c
states have been also investigated using
an extended local hidden gauge approach [40]. Within this
scheme, low-lying 1/2
+
and 3/2
+
baryons, as well as pseu-
doscalar and vector mesons, are considered to construct the
baryon-meson coupled channel space. In this manner, two
c
states of J
P
= 1/2
−
and one
∗
c
J
P
= 3/2
−
can be
identified, the first two in good agreement with the results of
[39] and the third one fairly well.
The use of the hidden-gauge formalism allows for the
preservation of heavy-quark spin symmetry (HQSS), which
is a proper QCD symmetry that appears when the quark
masses, such as that of the charm quark, become larger than
the typical confinement scale. Aiming to incorporate explic-
itly HQSS, a scheme was developed in Refs. [37,38,41–
43] that implements a consistent SU(6)
lsf
× SU(2)
HQSS
extension of the Weinberg–Tomozawa (WT) π N interac-
tion, where “lsf” stands for light quark-spin-flavor sym-
metry, respectively. Indeed, the works of Refs. [37,38]are
the first meson-baryon molecular studies, fully consistent
with HQSS, of the well-established odd-parity
c
(2595)
[J = 1/2] and
c
(2625) [J = 3/2] resonances.
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