Unquenched quark-model calculation of X(3872) electromagnetic decays

Abstract

A recent quark-model description of X(3872) as an unquenched $2{}^3{P}_1$ $c\bar{c}$ state is generalised by now including all relevant meson-meson configurations, in order to calculate the widths of the experimentally observed electromagnetic decays $X(3872)\to \gamma J/\psi$ and $X(3872)\to \gamma \psi (2S)$. Interestingly, the inclusion of additional two-meson channels, most importantly $D^{\pm }{D}^{\star \mp }$, leads to a sizeable increase of the $c\bar{c}$ probability in the total wave function, although the $D^0{\bar{D}}^{\star 0}$ component remains the dominant one. As for the electromagnetic decays, unquenching strongly reduces the $\gamma \psi (2S)$ decay rate yet even more sharply enhances the $\gamma J/\psi$ rate, resulting in a decay ratio compatible with one experimental observation but in slight disagreement with two others. Nevertheless, the results show a dramatic improvement as compared to a quenched calculation with the same confinement force and parameters. Concretely, we obtain $\Gamma (X(3872)\to \gamma \psi (2S))=28.9$ keV and $\Gamma (X(3872)\to \gamma J/\psi )=24.7$ keV, with branching ratio ${\mathcal{R}}_{\gamma \psi }=1.17$.

arXiv comment10 pages, 2 figures (3 plots), 10 tables, SVJOUR style; v2: typos corrected, 2 references added, remarks added on dipole approximation, version accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. C

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