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The Hydrogen Bond of QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-07-10 v2

Abstract

Using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, we show that exotic resonances, X and Z, may emerge as QCD molecular objects made of colored two-quark lumps, states with heavy-light diquarks spatially separated from antidiquarks. With the same method we confirm that doubly heavy tetraquarks are stable against strong decays. Tetraquarks described here provide a new picture of exotic hadrons, as formed by the QCD analog of the hydrogen bond of molecular physics.

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@article{arxiv.1903.10253,
  title  = {The Hydrogen Bond of QCD},
  author = {L. Maiani and A. D. Polosa and V. Riquer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.10253},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

5 pages, 3 figures, comments and references added. Table 1 extended