First Observation of a Doubly Charged Tetraquark and Its Neutral Partner



Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, ASW, Beteta, C Abellan, Abudinen, F, Ackernley, T ORCID: 0000-0002-5951-3498, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Afsharnia, H, Agapopoulou, C
et al (show 1049 more authors) (2023) First Observation of a Doubly Charged Tetraquark and Its Neutral Partner. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 131 (4). 041902-.

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Abstract

A combined amplitude analysis is performed for the decays B^{0}→D[over ¯]^{0}D_{s}^{+}π^{-} and B^{+}→D^{-}D_{s}^{+}π^{+}, which are related by isospin symmetry. The analysis is based on data collected by the LHCb detector in proton-proton collisions at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. The full data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 9  fb^{-1}. Two new resonant states with masses of 2.908±0.011±0.020  GeV and widths of 0.136±0.023±0.013  GeV are observed, which decay to D_{s}^{+}π^{+} and D_{s}^{+}π^{-} respectively. The former state indicates the first observation of a doubly charged open-charm tetraquark state with minimal quark content [cs[over ¯]ud[over ¯]], and the latter state is a neutral tetraquark composed of [cs[over ¯]u[over ¯]d] quarks. Both states are found to have spin-parity of 0^{+}, and their resonant parameters are consistent with each other, which suggests that they belong to an isospin triplet.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: LHCb Collaboration
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 18 Sep 2023 07:48
Last Modified: 29 Oct 2023 08:12
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.041902
Open Access URL: https://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLe...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3172832