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Hidden-flavour four-quark states in the charm and bottom region

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-05-22 v3

Abstract

We discuss the spectrum and the internal composition of ground and excited four-quark states in the charm and bottom energy region. To this end we extend previous calculations within the framework of the relativistic four-body Faddeev-Yakubovsky equation to include quantum numbers with JPC=0++,0+,1,1+J^{P C} = 0^{++} , 0^{-+} , 1^{--} , 1^{+-} and 1++1^{+ +} and study their internal composition in terms of heavy-light meson pairs, hadroquarkonia and diquark-antidiquark clusters. We observe similar patterns in the charm and bottom energy region with different compositions of the four-quark states depending on JPCJ^{P C} quantum numbers. Most notably, we find that all states with CP=+1C \cdot P = +1 are dominated by heavy-light meson contributions, whereas for axialvector states with JPC=1+J^{P C} = 1^{+-} including the Zc(3900)Z_c (3900) we find a much more complicated picture depending on the flavour content. We systematically compare our results for the spectrum with existing experimental results and provide predictions for future analyses.

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@article{arxiv.2402.12830,
  title  = {Hidden-flavour four-quark states in the charm and bottom region},
  author = {Joshua Hoffer and Gernot Eichmann and Christian S. Fischer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12830},
  year   = {2024}
}

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14 pages, 11 figures