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Strangeonium spectrum with the screening effects and interpretation of $h_1(1911)$ and $X(2300)$ observed by BESIII

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Pith's one-line read Two newly observed meson states are identified as radially excited P-wave strange-antistrange states.

desk verdict Systematic strangeonium spectrum with a plausible new X(2300)=3^1P1 assignment, weakened by sloppy width reporting and a missing 3P0 parameter. read the letter →

arxiv 2412.11498 v2 pith:RTUOKHSW submitted 2024-12-16 hep-ph

classification hep-ph
keywords strangeoniumscreeningeffectsmodifiedGodfrey-Isgurmodel3P0strongdecaysh1(1911)X(2300)phi(2170)
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

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The reading

This paper aims to show that two recently observed states, h1(1911) and X(2300), are ordinary excited strangeonium mesons rather than exotic configurations. In the modified Godfrey-Isgur quark model with screening, the $2^1P_1$ and $3^1P_1$ $s\bar{s}$ states are predicted at 1934 MeV and 2301 MeV, close to the measured masses of 1911 and 2316 MeV. Using those wave functions, the $^3P_0$ model gives total widths near 100\,--\,120 MeV, again matching experiment. The payoff is a consistent assignment of both states into the strangeonium spectrum and a set of predicted decay channels that future experiments can test.

What carries the argument

The object that carries the argument is the modified Godfrey-Isgur Hamiltonian, a relativized quark model in which the linear confining term $br$ is replaced by the screened potential $V_{\rm scr}(r)=b(1-e^{-\mu r})/\mu$. The flattening of this potential at large $r$ lowers the high radial excitations relative to the unscreened model; the parameter $\mu$ and several other constants are fitted to the low-lying strangeonium benchmarks. The resulting meson wave functions are then inserted into the $^3P_0$ quark-pair-creation model, whose transition operator produces the partial-wave amplitudes and decay widths.

What would settle it

Measure the partial widths of h1(1911) and X(2300) in their observed production channels and compare the $K\bar K^*$ and $K^*\bar K^*$ fractions with the predicted values (about 56%/36% and 35%/12%). If those channels are absent or the total widths differ by more than the model's typical 20\,--\,30% uncertainty, the $2^1P_1$ and $3^1P_1$ assignments are falsified; alternatively, the predicted $3P$ partners near 2290\,--\,2330 MeV would settle the multiplet structure if found or excluded.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that h1(1911) is the $h_1(2^1P_1)$ strangeonium state and X(2300) is its $h_1(3^1P_1)$ partner. With the model parameters fixed to the well established states $\phi(1020)$, $\phi(1680)$, $h_1(1415)$, $f'_2(1525)$, and $\phi_3(1850)$, the calculation gives masses 1934 and 2301 MeV and widths 106 and 112 MeV, in agreement with the measured values of 1911$\pm 6\pm 14$ and 2316$\pm 9\pm 30$ MeV and 149$\pm 12\pm 23$ and 89$\pm 15\pm 26$ MeV. It also assigns X(2000) to $3^3S_1$, $\eta_2(1870)$ to $1^1D_2$, and $\phi(2170)$ to $2^3D_1$, and provides complete mass and width tables for $S$-, $P$-, and $D$-wave strangeonium states.

Load-bearing premise

The screened potential $V_{\rm scr}(r)=b(1-e^{-\mu r})/\mu$, with $\mu$ fitted to low-lying strangeonium states, is assumed to give reliable mass shifts at 1.9 and 2.3 GeV; if it fails there, the predicted masses move outside the experimental errors and the assignments collapse, and the unstated pair-creation strength $\gamma$ carries the width predictions.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • h1(1911) should decay mainly to $K\bar K^*$ and $K^*\bar K^*$, with branching fractions about 56% and 36%, and a total width near 100 MeV.
  • X(2300) should decay mainly to $K\bar K^*$, $K^*\bar K^*$, $K^*\bar K_{1B}$, and $K\bar K^*_2(1430)$, with branching fractions about 35%, 12%, 22%, and 26%.
  • X(2000) is naturally placed as the $3^3S_1$ strangeonium state and $\phi(2170)$ as the $2^3D_1$ state, which would remove the need for exotic explanations of those two resonances.
  • The remaining $3P$-wave strangeonium partners $3^3P_0$, $3^3P_1$, and $3^3P_2$ are predicted near 2290\,--\,2329 MeV with widths of about 80\,--\,110 MeV, so their discovery would confirm the multiplet.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If these assignments are confirmed, screened quark models would be validated as quantitative tools for strangeonium up to 2.3 GeV, making exotic interpretations of X(2300) less necessary without ruling them out.
  • A natural extension the paper does not make is to compute electromagnetic and radiative transitions between the assigned states; those branching fractions would be sharper discriminators among quark-model, tetraquark, and molecular pictures.
  • The close spacing of the predicted $3P$ multiplet suggests the 2.3 GeV region contains several nearly degenerate states; high-statistics partial-wave analyses of $\phi\eta$ and $K^*\bar K$ channels could resolve them and provide a direct test.
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Summary. The paper investigates the strangeonium mass spectrum and strong decays within a modified Godfrey-Isgur model that replaces the linear confining potential by a screened potential, Eq. (10). The model parameters are fit to five established s̄s states: φ(1020), φ(1680), h1(1415), f2′(1525), and φ3(1850). Using the resulting spectrum and 3P0 decay widths, the authors assign h1(1911) to the h1(2^1P1) s̄s state and X(2300) to the h1(3^1P1) s̄s state, with predicted masses 1934 and 2301 MeV and total widths around 100–120 MeV. They also discuss assignments for X(2000), η2(1870), and φ(2170), and provide predictions for many other S-, P-, and D-wave strangeonium states.

Significance. If the central assignments are correct, the paper gives a unified quark-model interpretation of two recently observed BESIII states as radially excited P-wave strangeonium, with explicit strong-decay branching fractions that can be tested in future experiments. The paper is useful as a systematic model comparison: Table II collects several quark-model predictions, and Tables III–V provide decay widths for a large set of strangeonium states. The authors also clearly state how the screening parameter is introduced and how the input states are selected. The main significance is conditional, however, because the X(2300) assignment depends on an extrapolated screening effect and because the quoted widths for the 2^1P1 state are internally inconsistent.

major comments (3)
  1. [§III.D, Table II, Eq. (10)] The assignment of X(2300) to h1(3^1P1) rests on the screened-potential prediction of 2301 MeV, which is 130–190 MeV below the predictions of the other models quoted in Table II (2435–2490 MeV). This shift comes from the screening term b(1−exp(−μr))/μ with μ=0.05 GeV, which is fitted to states below about 1.9 GeV; the 3^1P1 state therefore probes the saturation regime of the potential beyond the fitted range. The paper does not provide any check of the stability of this mass with respect to μ or to the form of the smearing in Eq. (11), nor an uncertainty estimate. A μ-stability test, or an explicit comparison of the screening shift for low-lying versus 3P-state wave functions, is needed to support the claim that X(2300) is 'well explained' as h1(3^1P1).
  2. [§III.C, Table IV, §IV] The total width of h1(2^1P1) is reported inconsistently: the text of Sec. III.C states 112 MeV and 96 MeV, Table IV gives 103.8 MeV (94.5 MeV with the experimental mass), and the summary in Sec. IV quotes 106 MeV. Since the width agreement with Γ=149±12±23 MeV is part of the evidence for the h1(1911)=h1(2^1P1) assignment, these three values must be reconciled and the convention (theoretical versus experimental input mass) must be stated clearly in every occurrence.
  3. [§II.B, Table I] The 3P0 pair-creation strength γ is never quoted. The transition operator in Eq. (13) is proportional to γ, so all absolute widths in Tables III–V depend directly on this parameter. The paper states that the model parameters are determined using the masses and widths of the five established states, but Table I lists no value for γ and the text mentions only fitting b, c, σ, s, and μ. The value of γ and how it was fixed (fit to which width, or taken from the literature) must be given, otherwise the width predictions are not reproducible and the width-based part of the assignments cannot be assessed.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract contains the typo 'two news states'; it should read 'two new states'.
  2. [Introduction and Table II] The BESIII state is introduced as h1(1900) with mass 1911 MeV, but the paper later refers to it as h1(1911) and Table II labels it X(1911). Please standardize the name used throughout, preferably h1(1911) with a note that some experimental publications call it h1(1900).
  3. [Footnote 1] The footnote states that treating h1(1595) as the 1^1P1 s̄s state was re-evaluated and that the predicted mass 1460 MeV aligns better with h1(1415), but no numerical details of this re-evaluation are given. A sentence or a small table entry showing the h1(1595) mass prediction under the alternative assignment would make this choice transparent.
  4. [§III.F] In the final paragraph of Sec. III.F, the comparison 'the proportion of K̄K(13%) for state 2^3D1 is larger than the one (4%) for the 2^3D1 state' appears to contain a typo: the second state should presumably be 2^3D3.
  5. [Table II] The column headers and entries mix spectroscopic notation with particle names in a way that can be confusing: for example, '2^1P1 X(1911)' and '3^1P1 X(2300)' are used even though the states are axial-vector strangeonium candidates h1(1911) and X(2300). A clearer separation of the quantum-number label from the candidate name would improve readability.

Circularity Check

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One minor circular step: the 1^1P1 benchmark h1(1415) is both a fit input and used to justify its own selection; central X(2300) assignment remains a genuine prediction.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Footnote 1, Section III (page 4-5); Table II]
    "For strangeonium, we use ϕ(1020), ϕ(1680), h1(1415), f′2(1525), and ϕ3(1850), which can be regarded as good candidates of s¯s states [5], to fit the model parameters. ... Our analysis shows that the predicted mass (1460 MeV) of the 1 1P1 s¯s state aligns more closely with the h1(1415) than with the h1(1595). Therefore, in this work, we adopt the h1(1415) as the 1 1P1 s¯s state, consistent with Refs. [5,58]."

    The 1 1P1 mass 1460 MeV is the output of the MGI model whose parameters were fitted using h1(1415) (experimental mass ~1409 MeV) as one of the five benchmark states, as quoted above. Consequently, the predicted mass near 1409 MeV is a reproduction of an input, not an independent prediction. The footnote uses this agreement to justify selecting h1(1415) over h1(1595) as the 1 1P1 s¯s state; since h1(1595) was not part of the fitting set, the comparison is biased in favor of the fitted input. This is a fitted input being called a prediction to support an assignment.

full rationale

The central assignments h1(1911)=2^1P1 and X(2300)=3^1P1 are genuine predictions: the MGI model parameters are fitted to five established strangeonium states (φ(1020), φ(1680), h1(1415), f2'(1525), φ3(1850)), none of which are the target states. The predicted masses 1934 MeV and 2301 MeV are not tuned to the measured 1911 and 2316 MeV; they follow from the screened-potential fit and are compared a posteriori. The decay widths similarly use the 3P0 model with wave functions from the MGI model and are not fitted to the target widths. Therefore the central claim has independent content. The one circular step is the footnote: the model's predicted 1^1P1 mass (1460 MeV) is used to justify adopting h1(1415) rather than h1(1595) as the 1^1P1 s-sbar benchmark. But h1(1415) is one of the five states used to fit the model parameters, so the agreement is a reproduction of an input, not a prediction. This makes the benchmark selection partially self-definitional. It is minor, supported by external references [5,58], and does not affect the X(2300) assignment, which remains an extrapolated prediction. The omission of the 3P0 strength γ is a reproducibility gap, not circularity. Overall score: 2.

Assumptions & free parameters 6 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on five fitted model parameters plus an unreported 3P0 pair-creation strength, and on the domain assumptions that the benchmark states are pure strangeonium and that the screened potential form remains valid at high excitation energies. No new particles or entities are introduced.

free parameters (6)
  • b (string tension) = 0.19318 GeV^2
    Fitted to the masses and widths of the five benchmark strangeonium states in Sec. III.
  • c (constant term) = -0.249 GeV
    Fitted to benchmark strangeonium masses in Sec. III.
  • sigma0 (smeared confinement width) = 1.8401 GeV
    Fitted in the MGI model; controls the smearing of the confining potential.
  • s (exponent for momentum-dependent factors) = 1.554
    Fitted; modifies the momentum dependence of spin-orbit and hyperfine terms.
  • mu (screening parameter) = 0.05 GeV
    Fitted in the screened potential V_scr(r); controls the saturation of the linear confining term.
  • gamma (3P0 pair-creation strength)
    Controls all strong decay widths in Tables III-V, but its value is never stated in the paper.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption The five benchmark states phi(1020), phi(1680), h1(1415), f2'(1525), and phi3(1850) are pure s sbar states with negligible mixing and no significant exotic component.
    Used to calibrate the model parameters in Sec. III; if any benchmark has a large non-q qbar component, the fit is biased.
  • ad hoc to paper The screened potential V_scr(r) = b(1 - exp(-mu r))/mu is an adequate representation of unquenched effects for strangeonium at all energies considered.
    Eq. (10); the form is adopted from prior screened-potential models and its validity near 2.3 GeV is assumed without independent evidence.
  • domain assumption h1(1415) is the 1^1P1 s sbar state rather than h1(1595).
    Footnote 1; the choice is justified by the model's own predicted mass, which is a self-referential validation.
  • domain assumption The 3P0 model with MGI wave functions gives reliable absolute decay widths, with uncertainties of order 20-30%.
    Sec. II.B; the gamma parameter is not specified, so the overall scale of the width predictions is not fixed by the paper.

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abstract

Motivated by two news states $h_1(1911)$ and $X(2300)$ observed by BESIII, we have investigated the mass spectrum and the strong decay properties of the strangeonium mesons within the modified Godfrey-Isgur model by considering the screening effects. We have determined the free parameters using the masses and widths of the well established $s\bar{s}$ states $\phi(1020)$, $\phi(1680)$, $h_1(1415)$, $f_2^\prime(1525)$, and $\phi_3(1850)$. According to our results, $h_1(1911)$ and $X(2300)$ could be well explained as states $h_1(2^1P_1)$ and $h_1(3^1P_1)$ $s\bar{s}$ states, respectively. Meanwhile, the possible assignments of $X(2000)$, $\eta_2(1870)$, and $\phi(2170)$ as $3^3S_1$, $1^1D_2$, and $2^3D_1$ are also discussed. Furthermore, the masses and widths of the $2S$, $3S$, $1P$, $2P$, $3P$, $1D$, and $2D$ $s\bar{s}$ states are also given and compared with various theoretical predictions, which is helpful for the observations and confirmations of these states in future.

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