The $\mathbf{sQ\bar{q}\bar{q}}$ $\mathbf{(q=u,\,d;\, Q=c,\,b)}$ tetraquarks in the chiral quark model

TL;DR

This paper systematically investigates low-lying $sQar{q}ar{q}$ tetraquark states using a chiral quark model, predicting potential bound states and resonances, and analyzing their stability and relation to experimental signals.

Contribution

It provides the first comprehensive prediction of $sQar{q}ar{q}$ tetraquark states in both charm and bottom sectors using complex-scaling and variational methods within a chiral quark model.

Findings

Several bound states and narrow resonances predicted in charm-strange and bottom-strange sectors.

Most states result from strong channel coupling effects.

Candidates for the $X_{0,1}(2900)$ signals are unstable in this model.

Abstract

The low-lying $sQ\bar{q}\bar{q}$ $(q=u,\,d,\, Q=c,\,b)$ tetraquark states with $J^P=0^+$, $1^+$ and $2^+$, and in the isoscalar and isovector sectors, are systematically investigated in the framework of real- and complex-scaling range of a chiral quark model, whose parameters have been fixed in advance describing hadron, hadron-hadron and multiquark phenomenology, and thus all results presented here are pure predictions. Each tetraquark configuration, compatible with the quantum numbers studied, is taken into account; this includes meson-meson, diquark-antidiquark and K-type arrangements of quarks with all possible color wave functions in four-body sector. Among the different numerical techniques to solve the Schr\"odinger-like 4-body bound state equation, we use a variational method in which the trial wave function is expanded in complex-range Gaussian basis functions, because its simplicity and flexibility. Several compact bound states and narrow resonances are found in both charm-strange $cs\bar{q}\bar{q}$ and bottom-strange $bs\bar{q}\bar{q}$ tetraquark sectors, most of them as a product of the strong coupling between the different channels. The so-called $X_{0,1}(2900)$ signals, recently found by the LHCb collaboration, are unstable in our formalism with several candidates in the single-channel computations.