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Decay constants of the two-pole D0*(2300)

Qi-Wei Yuan, Jia-Ting Zhang, and Ming-Zhu Liu

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 27 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/4lqn-9w87

Abstract

The nature of the scalar charmed meson D0*(2300) remains one of the most intriguing states in hadron spectroscopy. A prominent interpretation is a two-pole structure generated by the coupled channels Dπ, Dη, DsK‾, and Dη′, in which the lower pole couples mainly to Dπ and the higher pole to DsK‾. Following this picture, we calculate the decay constants of these two poles using the effective Lagrangian approach. The resulting values, fD0*(lower)=68.46−1.25+0.93MeV and fD0*(higher)=90.51−11.64+5.91MeV, are substantially smaller than those predicted by conventional cq‾ excited-state scenarios. This difference suggests that decay constants can serve as a sensitive probe to discriminate between different internal structures of the D0*(2300). As a phenomenological application, we further predict the branching fractions for the Cabibbo-favored decays Bs→DsD0*, Λb→ΛcD0*, and Ξb→ΞcD0* within the factorization approach. These predictions provide crucial tests to validate the two-pole interpretation of the D0*(2300).

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