# Strong decays of double-charmed pseudoscalar and scalar $cc\overline{u}\overline{d}$ tetraquarks

## TL;DR

This paper uses QCD sum rules to calculate the masses, couplings, and decay widths of double-charmed tetraquarks, revealing their instability and decay channels into conventional mesons.

## Contribution

It provides the first detailed QCD sum rule analysis of the strong decays and properties of double-charmed tetraquarks, including their masses and widths.

## Key findings

- Masses: 4130±170 MeV and 3845±175 MeV.
- Decay widths: broad resonance (~130 MeV) and narrow state (~12 MeV).
- Decay channels into D mesons identified.

## Abstract

The strong decays of the pseudoscalar and scalar double-charmed tetraquarks $ T_{cc;\overline{u}\overline{d}}^{+}$ and $\widetilde{T}_{cc;\overline{u} \overline{d}}^{+}$ are investigated in the framework of the QCD sum rule method. The mass and coupling of these exotic four-quark mesons are calculated in the framework of the QCD two-point sum rule approach by taking into account vacuum condensates of the quark, gluon, and mixed local operators up to dimension 10. Our results for masses $m_{T}=(4130~\pm 170)~ \mathrm{MeV} $ and $m_{\widetilde{T}}=(3845~\pm 175)~\mathrm{MeV}$ demonstrate that these tetraquarks are strong-interaction unstable resonances and decay to conventional mesons through the channels $T_{cc; \overline{u}\overline{d}}^{+} \to D^{+}D^{\ast }(2007)^{0},~D^{0}D^{\ast }(2010)^{+}$ and $\widetilde{T}_{cc;\overline{u}\overline{d}}^{+}\to D^{+}D^{0}$. Key quantities necessary to compute the partial width of these decay modes, i.e., the strong couplings of two $D$ mesons and a corresponding tetraquark $g_i,~i=1,2$, and $G$ are extracted from the QCD three-point sum rules. The full width $\Gamma _{T}=(129.9\pm 23.5)~\mathrm{ MeV}$ demonstrates that the tetraquark $T_{cc;\overline{u}\overline{d}}^{+}$ is a broad resonance, whereas the scalar exotic meson with $\Gamma _{ \widetilde{T}}=(12.4\pm 3.1)~\mathrm{MeV}$ can be classified as a relatively narrow state.