Estimating the Production Rate of Loosely-bound Hadronic Molecules using Event Generators

Details Estimating the Production Rate of Loosely-bound Hadronic Molecules using Event Generators Estimating the Production Rate of Loosely-bound Hadronic Molecules using Event Generators

2010-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/1007.2868v2

Phys.Rev.D83:014019,2011

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

22 pages, 3 figures, corrected typos

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.014019

We examine the use of hadronic event generators, such as Pythia or Herwig, to estimate the production rate of loosely-bound hadronic molecules, such as the deuteron and the X(3872). In the case of the deuteron, we point out that there are large uncertainties in the normalization of the predictions using event generators, because baryon pair distributions are not among the inputs used to tune the event generators. Predictions using Pythia for anti-deuteron production in Upsilon decay are compared to measurements by the CLEO Collaboration. They suggest that Pythia overpredicts the probability of producing pairs of baryons, at least in Upsilon decay into three gluons, and that the standard value of the coalescence parameter underpredicts the probability for formation of a deuteron from a neutron and proton with small relative momentum. In the case of the X(3872), we discuss a proposed upper bound on the prompt cross section at the Tevatron that has been used as an argument against the X(3872) being a loosely-bound charm meson molecule. We demonstrate that this proposed upper bound is invalid by showing that the analogous upper bound for the anti-deuteron would be smaller than the observed anti-deuteron cross section.

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