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Xiang Liu

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Prediction of charmoniumlike structures in the hidden-charm di-eta decays of higher charmonia

Considering the situation that a single chiral partilce, $η$, is initially emitted, we study the hidden-charm di-eta decays of charmoniumlike state $Y(4660)$ and the predicted charmonium $ψ(4790)$, i.e., $Y(4660)/ψ(4790) \to J/ψηη$ through the inetermediates, $η\left[D^{(*)}\bar{D}^{(*)}\right]$ and/or $η \left[D_s^{+(*)}{D}_s^{-(*)}\right]$, and answer to the important question whether there exist isoscalar charmoniumlike structures in the $D^{(*)}\bar{D}^{(*)}$ and/or $D_s^{+(*)}{D}_s^{-(*)}$ channels. Our results predict that there will be enhancement structures near $D\bar{D}^*$, $D^*\bar{D}^*$ and $D_s\bar{D}_s^*$ thresholds for $Y(4660)$ and near $D^*\bar{D}^*$, $D_s\bar{D}_s^*$ and $D_s^*\bar{D}_s^*$ thresholds for $ψ(4790)$ in the $M_{\mathrm{max}}({J/ψη})$ distributions of $Y(4660)/ψ(4790) \to ηηJ/ψ$, respectively. These peaks are accessible at future experiments, especially BESIII, Belle, BaBar and forthcoming BelleII.

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On the relation of accretion rate and spin induced jet power in low luminosity AGN

From Liu and Han (2014), the accretion-dominated jet power has a linear proportionality with the accretion rate, whereas the power law index is <=0.5 at lower accretion rate. Attributing the jet power in low accretion rate AGN to the black hole spin, it implies that the jet power has a flatter spectrum than the accretion-dominated jet versus the accretion rate. The black hole must be spinning rapidly for producing such jet power efficiently, and this may allow us to find high-spin black holes in the radio-loud low-luminosity AGN.

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Dipion decays of heavy baryons

Compared with the charmed baryons, the bottom baryons are not very well known, either experimentally or theoretically. In this paper, we investigate the dipion strong decays of the P-wave and D-wave excited bottom baryons in the framework of the QPC model. We also extend the same analysis to the charmed baryons.

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Is radio jet power linearly proportional to the product of central black hole mass and Eddington ratio in AGN?

A model for the relation between radio jet power and the product of central black hole (BH) mass and Eddington ratio of AGN is proposed, and the model is examined with data from the literature. We find that radio jet power positively correlates but not linearly with the product of BH mass ($m$ in solar mass) and Eddington ratio ($λ$), and the power law indices ($μ$) are significantly less than unity for relatively low accretion ($λ<0.1$) AGN, $P_{j}\propto (λm)^μ$, in the radio galaxies and the Seyfert galaxies. This leads to a negative correlation between radio loudness and $λm$ for the low luminosity AGN, i.e. $R\propto (λm)^ρ$ with $ρ=(7/6)μ-1<0$, which may be attributed to a contribution of BH spin to total jet power assuming that the spin induced jet is gradually suppressed as the accretion rate increases. Whereas, for the high-z quasars which often show the slope $μ\geq1$, a positive correlation between the radio loudness and disc luminosity is predicted. We discuss that the jet powers of the high-z FRII quasars are likely dominated by the accretion disc rather than by the BH spin.

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First dark matter search results from the PandaX-I experiment

We report on the first dark-matter (DM) search results from PandaX-I, a low threshold dual-phase xenon experiment operating at the China Jinping Underground Laboratory. In the 37-kg liquid xenon target with 17.4 live-days of exposure, no DM particle candidate event was found. This result sets a stringent limit for low-mass DM particles and disfavors the interpretation of previously-reported positive experimental results. The minimum upper limit, $3.7\times10^{-44}$\,cm$^2$, for the spin-independent isoscalar DM-particle-nucleon scattering cross section is obtained at a DM-particle mass of 49\,GeV/c$^2$ at 90\% confidence level.

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Explaining the anomalous $Υ(5S)\to χ_{bJ}ω$ decays through the hadronic loop effect

In this work, we carry out the study on $Υ(5S)\to χ_{bJ}ω$ ($J=0,1,2$) by considering the hadronic loop mechanism. Our results show that the Belle's preliminary data of the branching ratios for $Υ(5S)\to χ_{bJ}ω$ can be well reproduced in our calculation with a common parameter range, which reflects the similarity among these $Υ(5S)\to χ_{bJ}ω$ decays of concern.

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Exotic Four Quark Matter: $Z_1(4475)$

Motivated by the LHCb's recent confirmation of $Z_1(4475)$ as the $J^P=1^+$ resonance, we investigate various exotic interpretations of $Z_1(4475)$, which may be an axial vector tetraquark state, the P-wave excitation of the S-wave $D_1 {\bar D}^\ast$ or $D_2 {\bar D}^\ast$ molecule, the S-wave molecule composed of a $D$ or $D^*$ meson and a D-wave vector $D$ meson, or the cousin molecular state of $Z_c(3900)$ and $Z_c(4020)$ composed of a $D$ or $D^*$ meson and their radial excitations. With the help of the heavy quark symmetry, we predict the typical radiative and hidden-charm and open-charm strong decay patterns of $Z_1(4475)$, which are crucial to further identify the molecular state assignment of $Z_1(4475)$.

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Predicting exotic molecular states composed of nucleon and P-wave charmed meson

In this work, we study the interaction between a nucleon and a $P$-wave charmed meson in the $T$ doublet by exchanging a pion. Our calculations indicate that a nucleon and a $P$-wave charmed meson with $J^P=0^+$ or $J^P=1^+$ in the $T$ doublet can form bound states. We propose the experimental search for these exotic molecular states near the $D_1(2420)N$ and $D_2^*(2460)N$ thresholds, where Belle, LHCb and the forthcoming Belle II have the discovery potential for them.

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Probing the $XYZ$ states through radiative decays

In this work, we have adopted the spin rearrangement scheme in the heavy quark limit and extensively investigated three classes of the radiative decays: $\mathfrak{M}\to (b\bar{b})+γ$, $(b\bar{b})\to \mathfrak{M}+γ$, $ \mathfrak{M} \to \mathfrak{M}^\prime+γ$, corresponding to the electromagnetic transitions between one molecular state and bottomonium, one bottomonium and molecular state, and two molecular states respectively. We also extend the same formalism to study the radiative decays of the molecular states with hidden charm. We have derived some model independent ratios when the initial or final states belong to the same spin flavor multiplet. Future experimental measurement of these ratios will test the molecular picture and explore the underlying structures of the $XYZ$ states.

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Resolving the puzzling decay patterns of charged $Z_c$ and $Z_b$ states

We investigate the ratio of the branching fractions of the molecular candidates decaying into the ground and radially excited states within the quark interchange model. Our numerical results suggest that these molecular candidates are more likely to decay into the radially excited states than into ground states. Especially, the ratio $Γ[Z_c(4430)\to πψ(2S)]$/$Γ[Z_c(4430)\to πJ/ψ]\sim 9.8$ is close to the experimental measurement, which supports the interpretation of $Z_c(4430)$ as the $\bar{D}D^*(2S)$ molecular state. The ratios of the branching fractions of $Z_b(10610)$ and $Z_b(10650)$ to $πΥ(2S, 3S)$ and $πΥ(1S)$ agrees very well with Belle's measurement. We also predict the similar ratios for $Z_c(3900)$, $Z_c(4020)$, $R_{Z_c(3900)}$$\approx$1.3 and $R_{Z_c(4020)}$$\approx$$4.7$. Hopefully the $πψ(2S)$ mode, and ratios $R_{Z_c(3900)}$ and $R_{Z_c(4020)}$ will be measured by the BESIII and Belle collaborations in the near future, which shall be very helpful to understand the underlying dynamics of these exotic states.

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First estimate of producing the charmed baryon $Λ_c(2880)$ at PANDA

In the present work we explore the production potential of $Λ_c(2880)^+$ at PANDA. With the $J^P=\frac{5}{2}^+$ assignment to $Λ_c(2880)^+$, we calculate the differential and total cross sections of $p\bar{p}\to Λ_c^-Λ_c(2880)^+$. We also perform the Dalitz plot analysis and give the $pD^0$ invariant mass spectrum distribution of the process $p\bar{p}\to Λ_c^-pD^0$, where the signal and background contributions are considered. Our numerical results indicate that the production of $Λ_c(2880)^+$ may reach up to about 20 $μ$b. About $10^7$ events from the reconstruction of $pD^0$ can be accumulated per day, if taking the designed luminosity ($2\times10^{32}~\mbox{cm}^{-2}\mbox{s}^{-1}$) of PANDA.

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Strong decays of the $XYZ$ states

Through the spin rearrangement scheme in the heavy quark limit, we have performed a comprehensive investigation of the decay pattern and production mechanism of the hidden beauty di-meson states, which are either composed of a P-wave bottom meson and an S-wave bottom meson or two S-wave bottom mesons. We further extend the corresponding formula to discuss the decay behavior of some charmonium-like states by combining the experimental information with our numerical results. The typical ratios presented in this work can be measured by future experiments like BESIII, Belle, LHCb and the forthcoming BelleII, which shall provide important clues to the inner structures of the exotic states.

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Phenomenological study of the isovector tensor meson family

In this work, we study all the observed $a_2$ states and group them into the $a_2$ meson family, where their total and partial decay widths are calculated via the quark pair creation model. Taking into account the present experimental data, we further give the corresponding phenomenological analysis, which is valuable to test whether each $a_2$ state can be assigned into the $a_2$ meson family. What is more important is that the prediction of their decay behaviors will be helpful for future experimental study of the $a_2$ states.

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An overview of $XYZ$ new particles

In the past decade, more and more charmoniumlike and bottomoniumlike states have been reported in experiments, which have led us to extensive discussions on the underlying structure of these states. In this review paper, we briefly summarize the experimental and theoretical status of these observed states.

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Position angle changes of inner-jets in a sample of blazars

We have carried out the Gaussian model-fitting to the 15 GHz VLBA cores for a sample of blazars from the MOJAVE database, analyzed the correlations in the model-fitted parameters and studied the variability properties for different group of sources. We find that the Fermi LAT-detected blazars have on average higher position angle changes of cores than the LAT non-detected blazars, and that the LAT-detected ones largely associate with more variable cores in flux density.

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Newly observed $B(5970)$ and the predictions of its spin and strange partners

Using the effective Lagrangian approach, we study the decay behavior of the newly observed $B(5970)$ meson, which is assigned as the $2^3S_1$ state in the $B$ meson family. What is more important is that we predict the information of the partial and total decay decay widths of $B(2^1S_0)$, $B_s(2^1S_0)$ and $B_s(2^3S_1)$ as the spin and strange partners of $B(5970)$, which is valuable to future experimental search for these missing states.

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Higher bottom and bottom-strange mesons

Motivated by the recent observation of the orbital excitation $B(5970)$ by CDF collaboration, we have performed a systematical study of the mass spectrum and strong decay patterns of the higher $B$ and $B_s$ mesons. Hopefully the present investigation may provide valuable clues to further experimental exploration of these intriguing excited heavy mesons.

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Simulating the charged charmoniumlike structure $Z_c(4025)$

Inspired by recent observation of charged charmoniumlike structure $Z_c(4025)$, we explore the $Y(4260)\to (D^*\bar{D}^*)^- π^+$ decay through the initial-single-pion-emission mechanism, where the $D^*\bar{D}^*\to D^*\bar{D}^*$ interaction is studied by the ladder approximation including a non-interacting case. Our calculation of the differential decay width for $Y(4260)\to (D^*\bar{D}^*)^- π^+$ indicates that a charged enhancement structure around $D^*\bar{D}^*$ appears in the $D^*\bar{D}^*$ invariant mass spectrum for this process, which can correspond to newly observed $Z_c(4025)$ structure.

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