Hidden-charm pentaquarks with strangeness in a chiral quark model

Abstract

The LHCb collaboration has recently announced the discovery of two hidden-charm pentaquark states with also strange quark content, $P_{cs}(4338)$ and $P_{cs}(4459)$; its analysis points towards having both hadrons isospin equal to zero and spin-parity quantum numbers $\frac12^-$ and $\frac32^-$, respectively. We perform herein a systematical investigation of the $qqsc\bar{c}$ $(q=u,\,d)$ system by means of a chiral quark model, along with a highly accurate computational method, the Gaussian expansion approach combined with the complex-scaling technique. Baryon-meson configurations in both singlet- and hidden-color channels are considered. The $P_{cs}(4338)$ and $P_{cs}(4459)$ signals can be well identified as molecular bound states with dominant components $\Lambda J/\psi$ $(60\%)$ and $\Xi_c D$ $(23\%)$ for the lowest-energy case and $\Xi_c D^*$ $(72\%)$ for the highest-energy one. Besides, it seems that some narrow resonances can be also found in each allowed $I(J^P)$-channel in the energy region of $4.6-5.5$ GeV, except for the $1(\frac12^-)$ where a shallow bound state with dominant $\Xi^*_c D^*$ structure is obtained at $4673$ MeV with binding energy $E_B=-3$ MeV. These exotic states are expected to be confirmed in future high energy experiments.