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We present a very general argument that the analogue of a heavy pentaquark (a state with the quantum numbers of a baryon combined with an additional light quark and a heavy antiquark) must exist as a particle stable under strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Thomas D. Cohen , Paul M. Hohler , Richard F. Lebed

In the framework of the chiral quark model along with complex scaling range, we perform a dynamical study on the low-lying $S$-wave doubly-heavy tetraquark states ($QQ\bar{q}\bar{q}$, $Q=c, b$ and $q=u, d$) with an accurate computing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Gang Yang , Jialun Ping , Jorge Segovia

Multiquark systems such as tetraquarks, pentaquarks and hexaquarks states are studied as di-hadronic molecules in a nonrelativistic model. The masses of several di-hadronic states using a molecular interaction provided by asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ajay Kumar Rai , J N Pandya , P C Vinodkumar

In this work, a color structure dependent flip-flop potential is developed for the two quarks and two antiquarks system. Then, this potential is applied to a microscopic quark model which, by integrating the internal degrees of freedom, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-31 Marco Cardoso , Pedro Bicudo

Within the diquark-antidiquark framework, this study investigates the masses of ground-state tetraquarks composed of heavy charm ($c$) and bottom ($b$) quarks and antiquarks, using the Bethe-Salpeter formalism. We establish the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Zhen-Yang Wang , Jing-Juan Qi , Zhen-Hua Zhang , Xin-Heng Guo

Flavour-exotic tetraquark mesons, by definition bound states of two quarks and two antiquarks of four mutually different quark flavours, are, for given Lorentz features, subject to two incompatible constraints: On the one hand, within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-26 Wolfgang Lucha , Dmitri Melikhov , Hagop Sazdjian

Doubly heavy tetraquark states are the prime candidates for tightly bound exotic states. We present a systematic study of the mass spectra of the $S$-wave doubly heavy tetraquark states $QQ\bar{q}\bar{q}$ ($q=u, d, s$ and $Q=c, b$) with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-09 Tao Guo , Jianing Li , Jiaxing Zhao , Lianyi He

While hidden, singly, doubly, and fully heavy tetraquark states have been experimentally observed, triply heavy tetraquark states remain unconfirmed. We systematically investigate the spectroscopic and decay properties of four triply…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-12 Hong-Tao An , Yu-Shuai Li , Si-Qiang Luo

We develop a moment QCD sum rule method augmented by fundamental inequalities to study the existence of exotic doubly hidden-charm/bottom tetraquark states made of four heavy quarks. Using the compact diquark-antidiquark configuration, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-08 Wei Chen , Hua-Xing Chen , Xiang Liu , T. G. Steele , Shi-Lin Zhu

We give a review of the calculations of the masses of tetraquarks with two and four heavy quarks in the framework of the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach and QCD. The diquark-antidiquark picture of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 R. N. Faustov , V. O. Galkin , E. M. Savchenko

Motivated by the recent observations of exotic open-charm tetraquark candidates \(T^a_{c\bar{s}0}(2900)^{++}\) and \(T^a_{c\bar{s}0}(2900)^{0}\), we systematically calculate the mass spectra of \([cq][\bar{s}\bar{q}]\) tetraquarks within a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Zhi-Yuan Chen , Zhe-Hao Cao , You-You Lin , Ji-Ying Wang , Ailin Zhang

In the framework of an extended chromomagnetic model, we systematically study the mass spectrum of the $S$-wave $qQ\bar{Q}\bar{Q}$ tetraquarks. Their mass spectra are mainly determined by the color interaction. For the $qc\bar{c}\bar{c}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-25 Xin-Zhen Weng , Wei-Zhen Deng , Shi-Lin Zhu

In the framework of a nonrelativistic potential quark model, we investigate the mass spectrum of the $1S$-wave charmed-strange tetraquark states of $cn\bar{s}\bar{n}$ and $cs\bar{n}\bar{n}$ ($n=u$ or $d$) systems. The tetraquark system is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-07 Feng-Xiao Liu , Ru-Hui Ni , Xian-Hui Zhong , Qiang Zhao

In recent years there has been a rapidly growing body of experimental evidence for existence of exotic, multiquark hadrons, i.e. mesons which contain additional quarks, beyond the usual quark-antiquark pair and baryons which consist of more…

Investigating the electromagnetic characteristics of unconventional states may offer new insights into their internal structures. In particular, the magnetic moment attributes may serve as a crucial physical observable for differentiating…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-22 U. Özdem

There are experimental evidences for the existence of narrow states $\Theta^+$ and $\Theta_c$ with the same quantum numbers of $uudd\bar s$ and $uudd\bar c$ pentaquarks and also $NK^{(*)}$ and $ND^{(*)}$ molecular states. Their masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Xiao-Gang He , Xue-Qian Li , Xiang Liu , Xiao-Qian Zeng

A number of new four-quark states containing from one to four charm or anti-charm quarks have been observed recently. Many of these new states have been discovered at the LHC. The production of these states via intrinsic charm in the proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-03 R. Vogt

A systematic investigation of $S$-wave triply heavy tetraquark systems with quark content $\bar{b}c\bar{q}c$ and $\bar{c}b\bar{q}b$ $(q = u,\,d,\,s)$, spin-parity quantum numbers $J^P=0^+$, $1^+$, $2^+$ and isospin $I=0,\,\frac{1}{2}$, is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 Gang Yang , Jialun Ping , Jorge Segovia

The compact tetraquark states with fully heavy quark contents $QQ\bar Q\bar Q$ are studied as the bound states of the diquark-antidiquark within the Bethe-Salpeter framework. The (anti)diquark masses and form factors used are the same as we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Qiang Li , Chao-Hsi Chang , Guo-Li Wang , Tianhong Wang

Within the framework of QCD sum rules, we have investigated the tetraquark states with three heavy quarks. We systematically construct the interpolating currents for the possible $cc\bar{c}\bar{q}$, $cc\bar{b}\bar{q}$, $bc\bar{b}\bar{q}$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-30 Jin-Feng Jiang , Wei Chen , Shi-Lin Zhu