Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2007-12-22
Phys.Rev.D79:051503,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
4 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.051503
The Belle Collaboration recently discovered the first manifestly exotic meson: Z^+(4430), which decays into psi' pi^+ and therefore has quark content c c-bar u d-bar. The proximity of its mass to the D_1 D-bar^* threshold has motivated the interpretation of the Z^+ as a charm meson molecule whose constituents are an S-wave superposition of D_1^+ D-bar^{*0}$ and D^{*+} D-bar_1^0$. If this interpretation is correct, the small ratio of the binding energy of the Z^+ to the width Gamma_1 of its constituent D_1 can be exploited to predict properties of its line shapes. Its full width at half maximum in the channel psi' pi^+ should be approximately sqrt{3} Gamma_1 = 35 MeV, which is consistent with the measured width of the Z^+. The Z^+ should also decay into D^* D-bar^* pi through decay of its constituent D_1. The peak in the line shape for D^* D-bar^* pi should be at a higher energy than the peak in the line shape for psi' pi^+ by about Gamma_1/sqrt{12} = 6 MeV. The line shape in D^* D-bar^* pi should also be broader and asymmetric, with a shoulder on the high energy side that can be attributed to a threshold enhancement in the production of D_1 D-bar^*.
Braaten Eric
Lu Meng
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