https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3063-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Production of the bottom analogs and the spin partner of the X(3872) at hadron colliders
1
Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen- und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, 53115, Bonn, Germany
2
Institute for Advanced Simulation, Institut für Kernphysik and Jülich Center for Hadron Physics, JARA-FAME and JARA-HPC, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425, Jülich, Germany
3
INPAC, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, People’s Republic of China
* e-mail: weiwang@hiskp.uni-bonn.de
Received:
27
February
2014
Accepted:
2
September
2014
Published online:
23
September
2014
Using the Monte Carlo event generator tools Pythia and Herwig, we simulate the production of bottom/charm meson and antimeson pairs at hadron colliders in proton–proton/antiproton collisions. With these results, we derive an order-of-magnitude estimate for the production rates of the bottom analogs and the spin partner of the 
as hadronic molecules at the LHC and Tevatron experiments. We find that the cross sections for these processes are at the nb level, so that the current and future data sets from the Tevatron and LHC experiments offer a significant discovery potential. We further point out that the 
should be reconstructed in the 
, 
, or 
instead of the 
final states.
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