First observation of a doubly charged tetraquark and its neutral partner

LHCb Collaboration, Simone Bifani, Ryan Calladine, Naomi Cooke, Daniel Johnson, Cristina Lazzeroni, Jonathan Plews, Niladribihari Sahoo, Mark Slater, Paul Swallow, D. J. D. Thompson, Nigel Watson

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Abstract

A combined amplitude analysis is performed for the decays B0→D¯¯¯¯0D+sπ− and B+→D−D+sπ+, 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 13TeV. The full data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 9fb−1. Two new resonant states with masses of 2.908±0.011±0.020GeV and widths of 0.136±0.023±0.011GeV are observed, which decay to D+sπ+ and D+sπ− respectively. The former state indicates the first observation of a doubly charged open-charm tetraquark state with minimal quark content [cs¯ud¯], and the latter state is a neutral tetraquark composed of [cs¯u¯d] quarks. Both states are found to have spin-parity 0+, and their resonant parameters are consistent with each other, which suggests that they belong to an isospin triplet.
Original languageEnglish
Article number041902
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume131
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 27 Jul 2023

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All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and additional information, are available at https://cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/p/LHCb-PAPER-2022-026.html (LHCb public pages)

Keywords

  • hep-ex

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