The $T_{bc}$ tetraquarks near the $B\bar{D}$ threshold
Abstract
We study the doubly heavy open-flavor tetraquarks () and () in the dynamical diquark model, describing the system as a heavy antidiquark--light diquark pair interacting through the lattice-QCD Born--Oppenheimer potential. Solving the radial Schr\"odinger equation yields -- GeV and -- GeV, with hyperfine splittings of -- MeV. The splitting is driven mainly by the mass difference between symmetric and antisymmetric heavy-antidiquark configurations, while the chromomagnetic interaction contributes linearly with , consistent with heavy-antidiquark spin algebra. The mean separation, -- fm, and inverse radius, -- fm, exhibit weak parameter dependence and support a compact diquark--antidiquark interpretation. Relative to open-flavor thresholds, the scalar state lies essentially at the threshold and may appear either as a weakly decaying bound tetraquark or as a narrow near-threshold resonance. In contrast, the axial-vector state is consistently predicted as an -wave resonance located -- MeV above and about MeV below , implying a line shape strongly influenced by the nearby threshold.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.05150,
title = {The $T_{bc}$ tetraquarks near the $B\bar{D}$ threshold},
author = {Halil Mutuk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.05150},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
13 pages, 1 figure