Searching for beauty-fully bound tetraquarks using lattice nonrelativistic QCD

Hughes, Ciaran; Eichten, Estia; Davies, Christine T. H.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.97.054505

Title: Searching for beauty-fully bound tetraquarks using lattice nonrelativistic QCD

Journal Article · Wed Mar 14 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.054505· OSTI ID:1426010

Hughes, Ciaran; Eichten, Estia; Davies, Christine T. H.

Motivated by multiple phenomenological considerations, we perform the first search for the existence of a $$\bar{bb}bb$$ tetraquark bound state with a mass below the lowest noninteracting bottomonium-pair threshold using the first-principles lattice nonrelativistic QCD methodology. Here, we use a full S-wave color/spin basis for the $$\bar{bb}bb$$ operators in the three 0⁺⁺, 1^+- and 2⁺⁺ channels. We employ four gluon field ensembles at multiple lattice spacing values ranging from a=0.06–0.12 fm, all of which include u, d, s and c quarks in the sea, and one ensemble which has physical light-quark masses. Additionally, we perform novel exploratory work with the objective of highlighting any signal of a near threshold tetraquark, if it existed, by adding an auxiliary potential into the QCD interactions. With our results we find no evidence of a QCD bound tetraquark below the lowest noninteracting thresholds in the channels studied.

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Research Organization:: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-07CH11359

OSTI ID:: 1426010

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1407122

Report Number(s):: FERMILAB-PUB-17-381-T; arXiv:1710.03236; PRVDAQ; 054505

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Journal Name: Physical Review D Vol. 97 Journal Issue: 5; ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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