Possibility of observation of hidden-bottom pentaquark resonances in bottomonium photoproduction on protons and nuclei near threshold  

作　　者：E.Ya.Paryev 

机构地区：[1]Institute for Nuclear Research,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow 117312,Russia [2]Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics,Moscow 117218,Russia

出　　处：《Chinese Physics C》2020年第10期87-97,共11页中国物理C（英文版）

摘　　要：We study theΥ(1S)meson photoproduction on protons and nuclei at near-threshold center-of-mass energies below 11.4 GeV(or at the corresponding photon laboratory energies Eγbelow 68.8 GeV).We calculate the absolute excitation functions for the nonresonant and resonant photoproduction ofΥ(1S)mesons off protons at incident photon laboratory energies of 63-68 GeV by considering direct(γp→Υ(1S)p)and two-step(γp→P^+b(11080)→Υ(1S)p,γp→P^+b(11125)→Υ(1S)p,γp→P^+b(11130)→Υ(1S)p)Υ(1S)production channels within different scenarios for the nonresonant total cross section of the elementary reactionγp→Υ(1S)p and for branching ratios of the decays P^+b(11080)→Υ(1S)p,P^+b(11125)→Υ(1S)p,and P^+b(11130)→Υ(1S)p.We also calculate an analogous function for the photoproduction ofΥ(1S)mesons on the 12C and 208Pb target nuclei in the near-threshold center-of-mass beam energy region of 9.0-11.4 GeV by considering the respective incoherent direct(γN→Υ(1S)N)and two-step(γp→P^+b(11080)→Υ(1S)p,γp→P^+b(11125)→Υ(1S)p,γp→P^+b(11130)→Υ(1S)p andγn→P^0b(11080)→Υ(1S)n,γn→P^0b(11125)→Υ(1S)n,γn→P^0b(11130)→Υ(1S)n)Υ(1S))production processes using a nuclear spectral function approach.We demonstrate that a detailed scan of theΥ(1S)total photoproduction cross section on proton and nuclear targets in the near-threshold energy region in future high-precision experiments at the proposed high-luminosity electron-ion colliders EIC and EicC in the US and China should provide a definite result for or against the existence of the nonstrange hidden-bottom pentaquark statesP^+bi and P^0bi(i=1,2,3)as well as clarify their decay rates.

关 键 词：photon-nucleus reactions bottomonium production hidden-bottom pentaquarks 

分 类 号：O571[理学—粒子物理与原子核物理] O572.33[理学—物理]