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hep-ph2026

non-leptonic hyperon decays in covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory

Jie Xu, Jun-Xu Lu, Rui-Xiang Shi +1

Inspired by the recent BESIII measurements of non-leptonic hyperon decays, we reexamine their amplitudes in covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory with the extended…

hep-ph2026

Strangeness is the key: from to

Li-Sheng Geng, Ming-Zhu liu, Jia-Ming Xie

The kaon, the lightest hadron containing a strangeness quark, is very peculiar. It is a Nambu-Goldstone boson, but significantly heavier than the pion. As a result, its interaction…

hep-ph2025

femtoscopy and the nature of

Yi-Bo Shen, Zhi-Wei Liu, Ming-Zhu Liu +4

Over the past two decades, numerous exotic hadron states have been discovered, yet their underlying nature remains unclear. It is widely acknowledged that understanding hadron-hadr…

nucl-th2025

Probing the three-body force in hadronic systems with specific charge parity

Ya-Wen Pan, Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng

Three-body forces, a type of non-perturbative strong interaction, are widely studied in nuclear physics. However, whether their inclusion is necessary in nuclear systems remains a…

hep-ph2025

Charmonium-nucleon femtoscopic correlation function

Zhi-Wei Liu, Duo-Lun Ge, Jun-Xu Lu +2

This study investigates the femtoscopic correlation functions of charmonium-nucleon pairs, utilizing the lattice QCD phase shifts provided by the HAL QCD Collaboration. A ``model-i…

nucl-th2025

Effect of a repulsive three-body interaction on the molecule

Ya-Wen Pan, Jun-Xu Lu, Emiko Hiyama +2

The hadronic molecular picture of the observed exotic states has inspired numerous investigations into few-body systems. Recently, the lattice effective field theory studied the ef…

hep-ph2025

Implication of the existence of bound state on nature of and new configuration of exotic state

Tian-Wei Wu, Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng

The discovery of numerous new hadrons over the past two decades has provided unprecedented opportunities to understand the non-perturbative QCD and hadron structure. Hadronic molec…

hep-ph2024

Implication of a negative effective range on the interaction and the nature of

Yi-Bo Shen, Ming-Zhu Liu, Zhi-Wei Liu +1

A recent analysis of the LHCb data [Phys. Rev. D 105 (2022) L031503] obtained a sizable negative effective range for the . This has attracted intensive discussions on whet…

hep-ph2024

Likely existence of bound states and the Efimov effect in the triple- system

Ya-Wen Pan, Zhi-Wei Liu, Li-Sheng Geng +2

The ground-breaking discovery of the first fully charmed tetraquark state in the invariant mass distribution by the LHCb collaboration has inspired intensive the…

hep-ph2024

Studying the heavy quark spin symmetry multiplet of hadronic molecules in the three-body decays of

Ming-Zhu Liu, Ya-Wen Pan, Li-Sheng Geng

The decay behavior of an exotic state can be used to probe its internal structure. We note that the hidden-charm pentaquark states, , , and $P_ψ^{N}(4…

hep-ph2024★ 9 cited

Pole trajectories of the helps establish its dynamical nature

Zejian Zhuang, Raquel Molina, Jun-Xu Lu +1

The has been one of the most controversial exotic baryons. If the possesses a two-pole molecular structure, these poles are expected to evolve differently towar…

hep-ph2024

Investigations on the weak decays of molecules

Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng

The decays of exotic states discovered experimentally always proceed via the strong and electromagnetic interactions. Recently, a tetraquark state with the quark content $bc\bar{q}…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Femtoscopy can tell whether and are resonances or virtual states

Zhi-Wei Liu, Jun-Xu Lu, Ming-Zhu Liu +1

There have been extended and heated discussions on the nature of the two exotic states, and , particularly whether they are near-threshold resonances, vir…

hep-ph2024

Productions of / and / in and decays

Ming-Zhu Liu, Xi-Zhe Ling, Li-Sheng Geng

The two excited vector charmonium states and are difficult to be understood as pure charmonium states. Since they are located close to the mass thres…

hep-ph2024

Three ways to decipher the nature of exotic hadrons: multiplets, three-body hadronic molecules, and correlation functions

Ming-Zhu Liu, Ya-Wen Pan, Zhi-Wei Liu +3

In the past two decades, a plethora of hadronic states beyond the conventional quark model of mesons and baryons have been observed experimentally, which motivated…

hep-ph2023

Dynamical origin of universal two-pole structures and their light quark mass evolution

Jia-Ming Xie, Jun-Xu Lu, Li-Sheng Geng +1

Two-pole structures refer to the fact that two dynamically generated states are located close to each other between two coupled channels and have a mass difference smaller than the…

hep-ph2023

Systematic studies of and four-hadron molecules

Ya-Wen Pan, Ming-Zhu Liu, Jun-Xu Lu +1

Assuming that is a molecular state with a binding energy of 45 MeV, we investigate the existence of four-hadron molecules, and $D\Bar{D}K\Bar{K}$, wi…

hep-ph2023★ 8 cited

Productions of and in and decays

Ming-Zhu Liu, Xi-Zhe Ling, Li-Sheng Geng

Recent studies show that and contain large molecular components. In this work, we employ the naive factorization approach to calculate the prod…

hep-ph2023

Long-range -wave interaction in covariant chiral effective field theory

Qing-Yu Zhai, Ming-Zhu Liu, Jun-Xu Lu +1

Motivated by the recent lattice QCD study of the interaction at unphysical quark masses, we perform a theoretical study of the interaction in covariant chiral effecti…

hep-ph2023

Production of the dibaryon as a weakly bound system in collisions

Tian-Chen Wu, Atsushi Hosaka, Li-Sheng Geng

The interaction plays an important role in our understanding on the long-anticipated -dibaryon. Recent lattice QCD calculations verified the attractive nature of the i…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Production rates of hidden-charm pentaquark molecules in decays

Ya-Wen Pan, Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng

The partial decay widths and production mechanism of the three pentaquark states, , , and , discovered by the LHCb Collaboration in 201…

hep-ph2023★ 28 cited

Productions of , , , and in decays offer strong clues on their molecular nature

Qi Wu, Ming-Zhu Liu, Li-Sheng Geng

The exotic states and have long been conjectured as isoscalar and isovector molecules. In this work, we first propose the triangle diagram mechan…

hep-ph2020★ 40 cited

How to reveal the nature of three or more pentaquark states?

C. W. Xiao, J. X. Lu, J. J. Wu +1

Within the chiral unitary approach and with the constraints of heavy quark spin symmetry, we study the coupled channel interactions of channels, close to…