Production of the X(3872) in B-meson decay by the coalescence of charm mesons

Eric Braaten*, Masaoki Kusunoki, Shmuel Nussinov

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Abstract

A method used to produce charmonium state X (3872) in a B-meson decay by the coalescence of charm mesons was discussed. It was found that this charmonium state could be produced if it was a loosely bound S-wave molecule of the charm mesons D̄0 D* 0 or D̄*0 D0. It was also found that one way to produce X was to produce D̄0 and D*0 with small enough relative momentum that they can coalesce into X. The results show that for a D̄0 D*0 molecule, the scale was about 10 MeV and Eb was atleast an order of magnitude smaller than the natural low-energy scale.

Original languageEnglish
Article number162001
Pages (from-to)162001-1-162001-4
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume93
Issue number16
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Oct 2004

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U.S. Department of Energy

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