Hyperspherical-coordinate approach to the spectra and decay widths of hybrid quarkonia

Abstract

In this paper, we consider the possibility that Y(4260), Y(4360), $ ψ(4415) $ or X(4660) is the ground state or the first excited state of a hybrid charmonium and examine whether $ Υ( 10860) $ is the ground state or the first excited state of a hybrid bottomonium. Under a constituent quark model, we carry out numerical calculations to obtain the spectra of both electric gluon and magnetic gluon hybrid quarkonia. We see that the ground state of a magnetic gluon hybrid charmonium and the first excited state of an electric gluon hybrid are comparable in energy to $ ψ(4415) $ and that the first excited states of an electric gluon hybrid bottomonium and the ground state of a magnetic gluon hybrid appear a few hundred MeV above the mass of $ Υ(10860 ) $. Also, we evaluate the widths of the decays of a hybrid charmonium into $D^{(*)} \bar{D}^{(*) } $ and those of a hybrid bottomonium into $ B^{(*) } \bar{B}^{(* ) } $. We show that if the exotic meson candidates are hybrid charmonia, then they are magnetic gluon ones and argue that it seems unlikely that $ Υ(10860) $ is the ground state of an electric gluon hybrid bottomonium.