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The decay of the observed (1400) and (1600) hybrid candidates
We study the possible interpretation of the two exotic resonances at 1400 and 1600 MeV, claimed to be observed by BNL, decaying
respectively into , , and . These
objects are interpreted as hybrid mesons, in the quark-gluon constituent model
using a chromoharmonic confining potentiel.
The quantum numbers can be considered in a
constituent model as an hybrid meson (). The lowest states may be built in two ways : =1 (gluon-excited)
corresponding to an angular momentum between the gluon and () system,
while (quarks-excited) corresponds to an angular momentum
between and . For the gluon-excited mode hybrids, we find
the decay dominated by the channel, and by the channel
for the quark-excited mode. In our model, neither the quark-excited nor the
gluon-excited (1400 MeV) hybrids can decay into and
, in contradiction with experiment. Hence, the 1400 MeV resonance
seems unlikely to be an hybrid state. The (1600 MeV) gluon-excited
hybrid is predicted with too large a total decay width, to be considered as an
hybrid candidate. On the contrary the quark-excited mode has a total decay
width around 165 MeV, with a preferred decay channel, in agreement
with BNL. Our conclusion is that {\it{this resonance may be considered as a
hybrid meson in the quark-excited mode}}Comment: 13 pages, 1 figur