Theoretical study on low-lying hidden-bottom and double-bottom tetraquark states

TL;DR

This paper uses a nonrelativistic quark model with instanton-induced interactions to study low-lying hidden-bottom and double-bottom tetraquark states, predicting their masses and possible stability, and relating them to experimental observations.

Contribution

It provides a theoretical analysis of tetraquark spectra with specific quantum numbers, predicting potential stable states and connecting them to known exotic mesons.

Findings

Several tetraquark states have masses near meson-meson thresholds.

Predicted masses of some states are close to observed $Z_b$ states.

Two stable double-bottom tetraquark states are identified at specific energies.

Abstract

We perform a theoretical study on the spectrum of the low-lying hidden-bottom ($q\bar{q}b\bar{b}$ with $q=$ $u$, $d$ and $s$) and double-bottom ($q\bar{q}bb$) tetraquark states within a nonrelativistic quark model, in which the instanton-induced interaction is taken as the residual spin-dependent hyperfine interaction between quarks. All the model parameters are fixed by fitting the spectrum of the ground hadron states. The numerical results indicate that masses of several $X_{q\bar{q}}$, $Z_{b}$, and $Z_{bs}$ tetraquark states are below and near thresholds of corresponding meson-meson channels, thus these states may form components of exotic meson states with reasonable probabilities. Especially, in present model, masses of several obtained states with quantum number $I^G(J^P)=1^+(1^{+})$ are close to $Z_b^\pm(10610)$, so one may expect these states to be non-negligible components of the experimentally observed $Z_{b}$ states. Concerning to the double-bottom tetraquark states, the present results are in general consistent with other previous works. Two possible stable $T_{bb}$ states with quark content $bb\bar{n}\bar{n}$ ($n=u$ or $d$ quark) lying at energies $10558$ MeV and $10650$ MeV are found, and one possible stable $bb\bar{n}\bar{s}$ state is found, whose energy is $\sim10687$ MeV.