Hidden-charm and radiative decays of the Z(4430) as a hadronic D_1 \bar{D^\ast} bound state

Tanja Branz, Thomas Gutsche, Valery E. Lyubovitskij

Published 2010-05-18, updated 2010-10-19Version 2

We study the $Z^\pm(4430)$ meson within a heavy hadron molecule interpretation where the $Z$ is considered as a bound state of a vector $D^\ast(2010)$ and an axial-vector $D_1(2420)$. We give predictions for the strong hidden-charm $Z^\pm(4430) \to \pi^\pm \psi$ and $\pi^\pm\psi^\prime$ decay widths and also study the radiative $Z^\pm\;(J^P=1^-) \to \pi^\pm\gamma$ decay properties in a phenomenological Lagrangian approach. Our findings are qualitatively in line with the experimental observation that the $\pi^\pm\psi^\prime$ transition dominates over the $\pi^\pm\psi$ decay mode despite a smaller phase space. The width for the radiative mode $\pi^\pm\gamma$ is sizable, allowing possible detection in future experiments.