Charmed-strange tetraquarks and their decays in a potential quark model

TL;DR

This paper uses a nonrelativistic potential quark model to predict the mass spectrum and decay properties of charmed-strange tetraquarks, linking them to observed resonances and suggesting experimental search channels.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed mass spectrum and decay analysis of $1S$-wave charmed-strange tetraquarks within a potential quark model, connecting theoretical states to experimental signals.

Findings

Predicted lowest $1S$-wave tetraquark states match LHCb resonances.

Rearrangement decays are mainly driven by spin-spin interactions.

Some couplings indicate these states may be hadronic molecules.

Abstract

In the framework of a nonrelativistic potential quark model, we investigate the mass spectrum of the $1S$-wave charmed-strange tetraquark states of $cn\bar{s}\bar{n}$ and $cs\bar{n}\bar{n}$ ($n=u$ or $d$) systems. The tetraquark system is solved by a correlated Gaussian method. With the same parameters fixed by the meson spectra, we obtained the mass spectra for the $1S$-wave tetraquark states. Furthermore, based on the predicted tetraquark spectra we estimate their rearrangement decays in a quark-exchange model. We find that the rearrangement decays of the tetraquarks may be mainly driven by the spin-spin interactions. The resonances $X_0(2900)^0$ and $T^a_{c\bar{s}0}(2900)^{++/0}$ reported from LHCb may be assigned to be the lowest $1S$-wave tetraquark states $\bar{T}_{cs0}^f(2818)$ and $T^{a}_{c\bar{s}0}(2828)$ classified in the quark model, respectively. It also allows us to extract the couplings for the initial tetraquark states to their nearby $S$-wave interaction channels. We find that some of these couplings turn out to be sizeable. Following the picture of the wavefunction renormalization for the near-threshold strong $S$-wave interactions, the sizeable coupling strengths can be regarded as an indication of their dynamic origins as candidates for hadronic molecules. Furthermore, our predictions suggest that signals for the $1S$-wave charmed-strange tetraquark states can also be searched in the other channels, such as $D^0K^+$, $D^+K^+$, $D^{*+}K^-$, $D^{*+}K^+$, $D^{*0}K^+$, $D^0\bar{K}^{*0}$, $D_s^+\rho^0$, etc.