Regge trajectories for the heavy-light diquarks

TL;DR

This paper adapts the Regge trajectory approach to estimate heavy-light diquark masses, incorporating light quark mass corrections and potential parameters, resulting in predictions consistent with other theoretical models.

Contribution

It introduces a modified Regge trajectory formula for heavy-light diquarks that accounts for light quark mass effects and potential parameters, providing a simple estimation method.

Findings

Modified Regge formulas yield diquark masses consistent with other theories.

Heavy-light diquarks follow universal Regge trajectories similar to other heavy-light systems.

The approach simplifies the estimation of heavy-light diquark spectra.

Abstract

We attempt to apply the Regge trajectory approach to the heavy-light diquarks composed of one heavy quark and one light quark. However, we find that the direct application of the usual Regge trajectory formula for the heavy-light mesons and baryons fails. In order to correctly estimate the masses of the heavy-light diquarks, it is needed to consider the light quark mass correction and the parameter $C$ in the Cornell potential within the Regge trajectory formula. By using the modified Regge trajectory formulas, we are able to estimate the masses of the heavy-light diquarks $(cu)$, $(cs)$, $(bu)$ and $(bs)$, which agree with other theoretical results. It is illustrated that the heavy-light diquarks satisfy the universal descriptions irrespective of heavy quark flavors, similar to other heavy-light systems such as the heavy-light mesons, the heavy-light baryons composed of one heavy quark (diquark) and one light diquark (quark), and the heavy-light tetraquarks composed of one heavy diquark (antidiquark) and one light antidiquark (diquark). The diquark Regge trajectory provides a new and very simple approach for estimating the spectra of the heavy-light diquarks.