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Are the anticharmed and bottomed pentaquarks molecular heptaquarks?

P. Bicudo
Phys. Rev. D 71, 011501(R) – Published 12 January 2005

Abstract

I study the charmed uuddc¯ resonance D*p(3100) very recently discovered by H1 Collaboration at HERA, using a standard quark model with a quark-antiquark annihilation constrained by chiral symmetry. I find that repulsion excludes the D*p(3100) as a uuddc¯ s-wave pentaquark. I explore the D*p(3100) as a heptaquark, equivalent to a NπD* borromean linear molecule, with positive parity and total isospin I=0. I find that the ND repulsion is canceled by the attraction existing in the Nπ and πD channels. Multiquark molecules NπD, NπB*, and NπB are also predicted.

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  • Received 5 April 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.011501

©2005 American Physical Society

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P. Bicudo

  • Dep. Física and CFIF, Instituto Superior Técnico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal

  • *Electronic address: bicudo@ist.utl.pt

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Vol. 71, Iss. 1 — 1 January 2005

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