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| Format: | Preprint |
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2025
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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12366 |
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- Within the diquark-antidiquark framework, this study investigates the masses of ground-state tetraquarks composed of heavy charm ($c$) and bottom ($b$) quarks and antiquarks, using the Bethe-Salpeter formalism. We establish the Bethe-Salpeter equations for the fully heavy $bc\bar{b}\bar{c}$ tetraquarks to the leading order in $1/m_Q$ expansion. These equations are subsequently solved numerically under the covariant instantaneous approximation with kernels containing scalar confinement and one-gluon exchange terms. Our results show that the spectra of all possible $S$-wave tetraquark states are above the corresponding two lowest meson decay thresholds via the quark rearrangement. This implies that the ground $bc\bar{b}\bar{c}$ tetraquark states should be broad.