Mass spectra of doubly heavy tetraquarks in an improved chromomagnetic interaction model

TL;DR

This paper systematically predicts the mass spectra of doubly heavy tetraquarks using an improved chromomagnetic interaction model, identifying stable states and aligning some predictions with recent experimental findings.

Contribution

It introduces an improved chromomagnetic interaction model with parameters fitted to conventional hadron spectra to predict doubly heavy tetraquark masses, including uncertainties from lattice QCD and other methods.

Findings

Several stable doubly heavy tetraquark states identified.

Predicted mass of $cc\bar u\bar d$ matches LHCb measurement.

Uncertainties estimated from lattice QCD and other models.

Abstract

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 different quantum numbers $J^P=0^+$, $1^+$, and $2^+$ in the framework of the improved chromomagnetic interaction (ICMI) model. The parameters in the ICMI model are obtained by fitting the conventional hadron spectra and are used directly to predict the masses of the tetraquark states. For heavy quarks, the uncertainties of the parameters are obtained by comparing the masses of doubly and triply heavy baryons with those given by lattice QCD, QCD sum rules, and potential models. Several compact and stable bound states are found in both the doubly charmed and doubly bottomed tetraquark systems. The predicted mass of the $cc\bar u\bar d$ state is consistent with the recent measurement from the LHCb collaboration.