Physics Letters B 741 (2015) 124–127
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Tetraquarks as diquark–antidiquark bound systems
M. Monemzadeh, N. Tazimi
∗
, P. Sadeghi
Department of Physics, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Received
21 May 2014
Received
in revised form 18 November 2014
Accepted
1 December 2014
Available
online 12 December 2014
Editor:
J.-P. Blaizot
Keywords:
Diquark
Tetraquark
systems
Binding
energy
Bound
state
In this paper, we study four-body systems consisting of diquark–antidiquark, and we analyze diquark–
antidiquark
in the framework of a two-body (pseudo-point) problem. We solve Lippman–Schwinger
equation numerically for charm diquark–antidiquark systems and find the eigenvalues to calculate the
binding energies and masses of heavy tetraquarks with hidden charms. Our results are in good agreement
with theoretical and experimental data.
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1. Introduction
The idea of existence of tetraquark hadrons (two quarks and
two antiquarks) was initially raised about twenty years ago by
Jaffe. He utilized one of the initial versions of the bag model
to study tetraquark spectroscopy of q
2
¯
q
2
in which q was a
quark lighter than charm quark. The MIT bag study revealed a
dense spectrum of tetraquark states in the light sector [1]. Later,
tetraquark systems were examined in potential models and flux
tube models [2]. The notion of diquark (two-quark system) is of
use in describing the hadron structure and particle interactions at
high energies.
According
to the quark model, hadrons are made up of quarks.
Mesons consist of a quark and an antiquark in a bound state, such
as light scalar mesons and some charmed mesons [3] and baryons
are composed of three quarks in a bound state. Their structure was
also shown to contain diquarks [4–6].
Based
on the diquark model, two quarks join and build a color-
anti-triplet
in a bound state. As a simplified image, a diquark is
viewed as a point particle having the quantum number of two
quarks. More generally, a diquark is a system of two quarks con-
sidered
as a pair. For example, a two-quark correlation in a hadron
with at least two quarks will be a diquark system. In its ground
state, a diquark has positive parity and may be an axial or a scalar
vector.
*
Corresponding author.
E-mail
addresses: monem@kashanu.ac.ir (M. Monemzadeh),
nt_physics@yahoo.com (N. Tazimi), ph.parva@yahoo.com (P. Sadeghi).
Gell-Mann [7] originally proposed the existence of diquarks.
Based on the fundamental theory, the concept of diquark was de-
veloped,
and it was even used to account for some experimental
phenomena [8]. Ref. [9] explored the exotic state X(3872) via QCD
Sum Rules. This study treated the hadronic state as a hidden-
charm-tetraquark
state with the quantum number I
G
( J
PC
) =
0
+
(1
++
). Chen and Zhu [10] used the same interpolating current
to investigate the 1
+−
tetraquark state and found its mass to be
(4.02 ±0.09) GeV.
Maiani
et al. [3] studied the masses of hidden-charm diquark–
antidiquark
systems taking into account the constituent diquarks’
masses and spin–spin interactions, but Ebert et al. [4] employed
the relativistic quark model based on the quasi-potential approach
in order to find the mass spectra of hidden-charm tetraquark sys-
tems.
Unlike Maiani et al., they ignored the spin–spin interactions
inside diquark and inside anti-diquark. We, however, considered
tetraquarks as two-body systems, and spin–spin interactions were
ignored. We used the diquark–antidiquark picture to reduce a com-
plicated
four-body problem to two simpler two-body problems.
The paper is organized as follows:
In
the first part, the bound states of four-quark systems are in-
vestigated
in the framework of a pseudo-point two-body system.
We explain Gauss–Legendre method in the second part. In the
third part, we calculate the binding energy of heavy tetraquarks
with hidden charms, and the last part is devoted to conclusions.
2. Tetraquarks represented through two-body problems
Among the tetraquark states, those consisting of diquark–
antidiquark
are of interest to this study. To describe tetraquarks,
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