Quark structure of the , and states
Abstract: We study some of the main properties (masses and open-flavor strong decay widths) of $4P$ and $5P$ charmonia. While there are two candidates for the states, the and , the properties of the other members of the multiplets are still completely unknown. With this in mind, we start to explore the charmonium interpretation for these mesons. Our second goal is to investigate if the apparent mismatch between the Quark Model (QM) predictions for states and the properties of the and mesons can be overcome by introducing threshold corrections in the QM formalism. According to our coupled-channel model results for the threshold mass shifts, the assignment is unacceptable, while the or assignments cannot be completely ruled out.
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