Abstract

Assuming the dominance of the spin-spin interaction in a diquark, we point out that the mass differences in the beauty sector M(Z\_b') - M(Z\_b) scale with quark masses as expected in QCD, with respect to the corresponding mass difference M(Z\_c') - M(Z\_c). Notably, we show that the decays Upsilon(10890) --> (h\_b(1P), h\_b(2P)) pi pi are compatible with heavy-quark spin conservation once the contributions of Z\_b,Z\_b' intermediate states are taken into account, Upsilon(10890) being either a Upsilon(5S) or the beauty analog of Y\_c(4260).

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