Narrow Results

In this talk we review the vector-vector and vector-baryon interaction within the hidden gauge formalism in a coupled channel unitary approach. The vector-vector interaction is studied for all the sectors not studied before: C = 0; S = 1 (hidden-charm), C = 1, S = 1, and the flavor exotic sectors C = 1; S = -1, 2 and C = 2; S = 0, 1, 2. We find nine states, four of them in the C = 1; S = 1 sector, where one can be identified with the and it is interpreted as a D* K* molecular state. The other five resonances are found in the flavor exotic sectors C = 1; S = -1, C = 2; S = 0, 1 and can be considered as , D* D* and molecular states. In the case of the vector-baryon interaction we generate hidden charm resonances around 4.3 GeV, without or with strangeness, N*, Λ*. Nevertheless, there is not experimental evidence of such states yet.

Doubly charmed mesons are studied within a quark model framework. We solve the four-quark Schordinger equation by means of a variational approach by using different interacting potentials. Our results point to the existence of a stable isoscalar doubly charmed four-quark meson with quantum numbers J^P = 1⁺.

During the last three years strong experimental evidence from B and charm factories has been accumulating for the existence of exotic hadronic quarkonia, narrow resonances which cannot be made from a quark and an antiquark. Their masses and decay modes show that they contain a heavy quark-antiquark pair, but their quantum numbers are such that they must also contain a light quark-antiquark pair. The main theoretical challenge has been to determine the nature of these resonances. The main possibilities are that they are either "genuine tetraquarks", i.e. two quarks and two antiquarks within one confinement volume, or "hadronic molecules" of two heavy-light mesons. In the last few months there is more and more evidence in favor of the latter. I discuss the experimental data and its interpretation and provide fairly precise predictions for masses and quantum numbers of the additional exotic states which are naturally expected in the molecular picture but have yet to be observed. I also provide arguments in favor of the existence of an even more exotic state – a hypothetical deuteron-like bound state of two heavy baryons.