New Exotic Meson and Baryon Resonances from Doubly-Heavy Hadronic Molecules

Abstract

We predict several new exotic doubly-heavy hadronic resonances, inferring from the observed exotic bottomonium-like and charmonium-like narrow states $X(3872)$, $Z_b(10610)$, $Z_b(10650)$, $Z_c(3900)$, and $Z_c(4020/4025)$. We interpret the binding mechanism as mostly molecular-like isospin-exchange attraction between two heavy-light mesons in a relative S-wave state. We then generalize it to other systems containing two heavy hadrons which can couple through isospin exchange. The new predicted states include resonances in meson-meson, meson-baryon, baryon-baryon, and baryon-antibaryon channels. These include those giving rise to final states involving a heavy quark $Q=c,b$ and antiquark $\bar Q' = \bar c,\bar b$, namely $D \bar D^*$, $D^* \bar D^*$, $D^* B^*$, $\bar B B^*$, $\bar B^* B^*$, $Σ_c \bar D^*$, $Σ_c B^*$, $Σ_b \bar D^*$, $Σ_b B^*$, $Σ_c \bar Σ_c$, $Σ_c \bar Λ_c$, $Σ_c \bar Λ_b$, $Σ_b \bar Σ_b$, $Σ_b \bar Λ_b$, and $Σ_b \bar Λ_c$, as well as corresponding S-wave states giving rise to $Q Q'$ or $\bar Q \bar Q'$.