Tetraquarks made of sufficiently unequal-mass heavy quarks are bound in QCD
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| author | Assi, Benoît Wagman, Michael L. |
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| contents | Tetraquarks, bound states composed of two quarks and two antiquarks, have been the subject of intense study but are challenging to understand from first principles. We apply variational and Green's function Monte Carlo methods to compute tetraquark ground-state energies in potential nonrelativistic QCD using a wide range of color and spatial wavefunctions. We find no evidence for bound tetraquarks composed of equal-mass quarks and antiquarks. Conversely, we find clear evidence for the existence of bound tetraquarks for sufficiently unequal quark/antiquark mass ratios at all overall mass scales where our effective theory results are applicable. We predict the critical mass ratios for bound state formation and study tetraquark bound states' spatial and color structure at leading order and next-to-leading order in potential nonrelativistic QCD. |
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| spellingShingle | Tetraquarks made of sufficiently unequal-mass heavy quarks are bound in QCD Assi, Benoît Wagman, Michael L. High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Lattice Tetraquarks, bound states composed of two quarks and two antiquarks, have been the subject of intense study but are challenging to understand from first principles. We apply variational and Green's function Monte Carlo methods to compute tetraquark ground-state energies in potential nonrelativistic QCD using a wide range of color and spatial wavefunctions. We find no evidence for bound tetraquarks composed of equal-mass quarks and antiquarks. Conversely, we find clear evidence for the existence of bound tetraquarks for sufficiently unequal quark/antiquark mass ratios at all overall mass scales where our effective theory results are applicable. We predict the critical mass ratios for bound state formation and study tetraquark bound states' spatial and color structure at leading order and next-to-leading order in potential nonrelativistic QCD. |
| title | Tetraquarks made of sufficiently unequal-mass heavy quarks are bound in QCD |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology High Energy Physics - Lattice |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01498 |