$P_c$ Photo-production And Decay

Abstract

The 2015 LHCb discovery of a structure (denoted by $P_c^+$) decaying in $J/\psi \,p$ and conjectured to be a penta-quark state, has triggered a renewed interest in the question of possible existence of multi-quark states not predicted by the naive quark model. In this talk we present some considerations on $P_c$ photo-production experiments, aimed at testing its multi-quark interpretation in the framework of a 40-years-old string-junction picture that allows a unified description of baryons, tetra-, and penta-quark states.