Diffusion Monte Carlo calculations of fully-heavy compact hexaquarks

TL;DR

This study employs diffusion Monte Carlo methods within a constituent quark model to investigate the properties of fully-heavy, compact six-quark arrangements, revealing their bound and mostly compact nature, with one exception.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed diffusion Monte Carlo analysis of fully-heavy compact hexaquarks considering specific antisymmetric wavefunctions.

Findings

All studied hexaquarks are bound systems with masses below separated baryons.

Most hexaquarks are compact objects, except $cccbbb$ which appears loosely bound.

Masses are larger than baryon pairs but smaller than six free quarks.

Abstract

We used a diffusion Monte Carlo technique to describe the properties of fully-heavy compact arrangements (no dibaryon molecules) including six quarks and no antiquarks within the framewok of a constituent quark model. Only arrangements whose wavefunctions were eigenvectors of $L^2$ with eigenvalue $\ell$ = 0 were taken into account, what means that we only considered the subset of all the possible color-spin combinations that make the total wavefunctions antisymmetric with respect to the interchange of any two quarks of the same type. This means arrangements with spin $S=0$ for $cccccc$, $bbbbbb$, $cccccb$, $bbbbbc$ and $cccbbb$ and spin $S=0,1,2$ for the $ccccbb$ and $bbbbcc$ hexaquarks. In all cases, the masses of the six-quark arrangements are larger that the ones corresponding to the sum of any of the two baryons we can split them into, but smaller that the ones for a set of six isolated quarks, i.e., all them are bound systems. The analysis of their structure indicates that all the hexaquarks considered in this work are compact objects, except the $cccbbb$, that appears to be a loose association of two baryons.