Weak-decay searches for $Qs\bar u\bar d$ tetraquarks

TL;DR

This paper proposes searching for $Qsar uar d$ tetraquarks with open heavy flavor via their weak decays, highlighting advantages like lower background and easier structural understanding if such states exist below certain thresholds.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to detect exotic tetraquark states with open heavy flavor through their weak decay channels, emphasizing experimental feasibility and theoretical clarity.

Findings

Potential existence of weakly-decaying $Qsar uar d$ tetraquarks below $BK$ or $DK$ thresholds.

Advantages of weak decay searches include lower background and clearer internal structure.

Threshold differences suggest higher likelihood of such states existing.

Abstract

We propose to search for the open heavy-flavor exotic states with the quark components of $Qs\bar u\bar d$ with $Q=b,c$ via their weak decays. If there exist such exotic states below the $BK$ or $DK$ thresholds, they can only decay weakly. The advantages include: (i) the experimental backgrounds from the secondary decay vertex are much lower due to the long lifetimes, (ii) the productions are large enough for only one heavy quark in such states, (iii) the thresholds of $BK$ or $DK$ are about 260 MeV higher compared to the $B_s\pi$ or $D_s\pi$ thresholds of the configurations of $Qu\bar s\bar d$ or $Qd\bar s\bar u$ , with a higher possibility to exist such weakly-decay particles, and (iv) if observed, their inner structures are easier understood since they can not be induced by the kinematic effects.