We present the first lattice QCD calculation of electromagnetic form factors of a tetraquark, focusing on the Tbb=bbuˉdˉ with quantum numbers I(JP)=0(1+). The electromagnetic current probes the charge monopole, magnetic dipole and the electric quadrupole distributions within the tetraquark. From it, we find evidence that its structure consists of a compact heavy diquark [bb] in spin one, color-antitriplet configuration, and a light antidiquark [uˉdˉ] in spin zero, color-triplet configuration. The computations were performed on a single CLS ensemble with Nf=2+1 dynamical quarks at a lattice spacing a≈0.064 fm and with a pion mass mπ≈290 MeV.
@article{arxiv.2602.24000,
title = {Electromagnetic form factors and structure of the $T_{bb}$ tetraquark},
author = {Ivan Vujmilovic and Sara Collins and Luka Leskovec and Sasa Prelovsek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.24000},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
10 pages + 4 figures. Talk given at the 42nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2025), 2-8 November 2025, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India