Hidden-charm tetraquarks with strangeness in the chiral quark model

TL;DR

This paper systematically investigates hidden-charm tetraquarks with strangeness using a chiral quark model and complex scaling, exploring various configurations and predicting potential exotic resonances in the 3.8-4.6 GeV range.

Contribution

It introduces a comprehensive analysis of $car{c}sar{q}$ tetraquarks with multiple configurations using a variational complex Gaussian basis in a chiral quark model.

Findings

Compatibility of $Z_{cs}$ states with tetraquark or molecular configurations

Prediction of several exotic resonances between 3.8 and 4.6 GeV

Validation of the model with known multiquark systems

Abstract

The hidden-charm tetraquarks with strangeness, $c\bar{c}s\bar{q}$ $(q=u,\,d)$, in $J^P=0^+$, $1^+$ and $2^+$ 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. 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, which is characterized by its simplicity and flexibility. This theoretical framework has already been used to study different kinds of multiquark systems, such as the hidden-charm pentaquarks, $P^+_c$, and doubly-charmed tetraquarks, $T^+_{cc}$. The recently reported $Z_{cs}$ states by the BESIII and LHCb collaborations are generally compatible with either compact tetraquark or hadronic molecular resonance configurations in our investigation. Moreover, several additional exotic resonances are found in the mass range between 3.8 GeV and 4.6 GeV.