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Electromagnetic form factors and structure of the $T_{bb}$ tetraquark

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2026-03-02 v1

Abstract

We present the first lattice QCD calculation of electromagnetic form factors of a tetraquark, focusing on the Tbb=bbuˉdˉT_{bb} = bb\bar u \bar d with quantum numbers I(JP)=0(1+)I(J^P) = 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][bb] in spin one, color-antitriplet configuration, and a light antidiquark [uˉdˉ][\bar u \bar d] in spin zero, color-triplet configuration. The computations were performed on a single CLS ensemble with Nf=2+1N_f = 2+1 dynamical quarks at a lattice spacing a0.064a\approx 0.064 fm and with a pion mass mπ290m_\pi \approx 290 MeV.

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@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