The possible Bpi molecular state and its radiative decay

Abstract

Recently, several exotic bosons have been confirmed as multi-quark states. However, there are violent disputes about their inner structures, namely if they are molecular states or tetraquarks, or even mixtures of the two structures. It would be interesting to search experimentally for non-strange four-quark states with open charm or bottom which are lighter than Lambda _c or Lambda _b. Reasonable arguments indicate that they are good candidates of pure molecular states Dpi or Bpi because pions are the lightest boson. Both Bpi and Dpi bound states do not decay via the strong interaction. The Bpi molecule may decay into B^* by radiating a photon, whereas the Dpi molecule can only decay via weak interaction. In this paper we explore the mass spectra of the Bpi molecular states by solving the corresponding instantaneous B–S equation. Then the rate of radiative decay |frac{3}{2},frac{1}{2}rangle rightarrow B^*gamma is calculated and our numerical results indicate that the processes can be measured by the future experiment. We also briefly discuss the Dpi case. Due to the constraint of the final state phase space it can only decay via weak interaction.