Double charm hadrons revisited.pdf

a r X i v : h e p - p h / 0 5 1 1 0 4 3 v 2 3 0 N o v 2 0 0 5 preprint LPSC-05-114 hep-ph/0511247 Double charm hadrons revisited1 J.-M. Richard2 Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et Cosmologie, Universite? Joseph Fourier–IN2P3-CNRS, 53, avenue des Martyrs, 38026 Grenoble cedex, France Fl. Stancu3 Institute of Physics, B.5, University of Liege, Sart Tilman, 4000 Liege 1,Belgium Abstract The dynamics of two heavy quarks inside the same hadron is probed against the double charm baryon results of SELEX. This can be seen as a part of the mechanism to bind tetraquarks with two heavy quarks and two light antiquarks. In the frame- work of potential models, it is possible to test the role of different effects: relativistic corrections, confinement, hyperfine forces, etc. It is conjectured that an additional interaction rescaled from the nucleon–nucleon system and acting between light quarks only, can help in bringing extra, possibly required, binding in tetraquarks. 1Based on an invited talk by Fl. Stancu at the Mini-Workop “Exciting Hadrons”, Bled (Slovenia), July 11-18, 2005 2 e-mail: Jean-Marc.Richard@lpsc.in2p3.fr 3 e-mail: fstancu@ulg.ac.be 1 Introduction The observation of double charmed baryons, (ccq), by the SELEX collaboration [1, 2] has brought new incentive to study hadrons containing heavy quarks. The discovery by Belle and BaBar of the Ds,J states [3], of the anomalously narrow X(3872) meson [4], and of the other hidden-charm states X(3940) [5] and Y (4260) [6] also stimulated much activity in this field. Some of these states might be interpreted as meson–meson molecules or as multiquark states. Regarding double-charm baryons, several uncertainties are left in the SELEX results: only the (ccd)+(3520) is confirmed, as being seen in two different weak-decay modes. Unfor- tunately, other peaks, which are candidates for isospin partner, spin or orbital excitation, are far from being established [7]. There is hope that the final analysis of SELEX data and futu