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- Title
Tetraquark and two-meson states at large $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$.
- Authors
Lucha, Wolfgang; Melikhov, Dmitri; Sazdjian, Hagop
- Abstract
Considering four-point correlation functions of color-singlet quark bilinears, we investigate, in the large- $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ limit of QCD, the subleading diagrams that involve, in the s-channel of meson-meson scattering amplitudes, two-quark-two-antiquark intermediate states. The latter contribute, together with gluon exchanges, to the formation, at the hadronic level, of two-meson and tetraquark intermediate states. It is shown that the two-meson contributions, which are predictable, in general, from leading-order $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ -behaviors, consistently satisfy the constraints resulting from the $$1/N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ expansion procedure and thus provide a firm basis for the extraction of tetraquark properties from $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ -subleading diagrams. We find that, in general, tetraquarks, if they exist in compact form, should have narrow decay widths, of the order of $$N_{\mathrm {c}}^{-2}$$ . For the particular case of exotic tetraquarks, involving four different quark flavors, two different types of tetraquark are needed, each having a preferred decay channel, to satisfy the consistency constraints.
- Subjects
TETRAQUARK; PAIRING correlations (Nuclear physics); QUANTUM chromodynamics; INTERMEDIATE state (Superconductors); EXOTIC atoms
- Publication
European Physical Journal C -- Particles & Fields, 2017, Vol 77, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1434-6044
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5437-x