Detailed analysis of the tetraquark potential and flip-flop in SU(3) lattice QCD
- Department of Physics, Nihon University, Kanda-Surugadai 1-8-14, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8308 (Japan)
We perform the detailed study of the tetraquark (4Q) potential V{sub 4Q} for various QQ-QQ systems in SU(3) lattice QCD with {beta}=6.0 and 16{sup 3}x32 at the quenched level. For about 200 different patterns of 4Q systems, V{sub 4Q} is extracted from the 4Q Wilson loop in 300 gauge configurations, with the smearing method to enhance the ground-state component. We calculate V{sub 4Q} for planar, twisted, asymmetric, and large-size 4Q configurations, respectively. Here, the calculation for large-size 4Q configurations is done by identifying 16{sup 2}x32 as the spatial size and 16 as the temporal one, and the long-distance confinement force is particularly analyzed in terms of the flux-tube picture. When QQ and QQ are well separated, V{sub 4Q} is found to be expressed as the sum of the one-gluon-exchange Coulomb term and multi-Y-type linear term based on the flux-tube picture. When the nearest quark and antiquark pair is spatially close, the system is described as a 'two-meson' state. We observe a flux-tube recombination called a 'flip-flop' between the connected 4Q state and the two-meson state around the level-crossing point. This leads to infrared screening of the long-range color forces between (anti)quarks belonging to different mesons, and results in the absence of the color van der Waals force between two mesons.
- OSTI ID:
- 20711065
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 72, Issue 1; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.72.014505; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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