Classifying the hidden-charm pentaquarks via a flavor mixing scheme

Abstract

In this work, we propose a scheme to classify the molecular states consisting of ground single-charm baryons ($Λ_c$, $Ξ_c$, $Σ_c^{(*)}$, $Ξ_c^{\prime(*)}$, $Ω_c^{(*)}$) and $\bar{D}^{(*)}/\bar{D}_s^{(*)}$ mesons. Within this framework, all considered baryon-meson systems are categorized according to the flavor components of their light degrees of freedom. We briefly illustrate how this classification scheme can consistently explain the experimentally observed $P_c$ and $P_{cs}$ states. This framework also predicts the existences of single-strange and double-strange hidden-charm bound states. The attractive interactions of these states arise from channel mixing between $Σ_c^{(*)}\bar{D}_s^{(*)}$ and $Ξ_c^{\prime(*)}\bar{D}^{(*)}$ for single-strange systems, and mixing between $Ξ_c^{\prime(*)}\bar{D}_s^{(*)}$ and $Ω_c^{(*)}\bar{D}^{(*)}$ for double-strange systems, respectively. Using parameters fitted from the measured $P_c$ and $P_{cs}$ states, we systematically present the predicted mass spectra for these single- and double-strange hidden-charm bound states.