$P_{c}(4457) \to P_{c}(4312) π/γ$ in the molecular picture

Abstract

The three pentaquark states, $P_{c}(4312)$, $P_{c}(4440)$, and $P_{c}(4457)$, discovered by the LHCb Collaboration in 2019, can be nicely arranged into a multiplet of $\bar{D}^{(\ast)}Σ_{c}^{(\ast)}$ of seven molecules dictated by heavy quark spin symmetry. In this work we employ the effective Lagrangian approach to investigate the two decay modes of $P_{c}(4457)$, $P_{c}(4457) \to P_{c}(4312) π$ and $P_{c}(4457) \to P_{c}(4312) γ$, via the triangle mechanism, assuming that $P_{c}(4457)$ and $P_{c}(4312)$ are $\bar{D}^{\ast}Σ_{c}$ and $\bar{D}Σ_{c}$ bound states but the spin of $P_{c}(4457)$ can be either 1/2 or 3/2. Our results show that the spin of $P_{c}(4457)$ can not be discriminated through these two decay modes. The decay widths of $P_{c}(4457) \to P_{c}(4312) π$ and $P_{c}(4457) \to P_{c}(4312) γ$ are estimated to be of order of 100 keV and 1 keV, respectively. The ratio of the partial decay widths of $P_{c}(4457) \to P_{c}(4312) π$ to $P_{c}(4457) \to P_{c}(4312) γ$ is similar to the ratio of $D^{\ast}\to Dπ$ to $D^{\ast}\to Dγ$, which could be used to check the molecular nature of $P_{c}(4457)$ and $P_{c}(4312)$ if they can be observed in the future.