Abstract

We systematically calculate the mass spectrum of the higher excited fully-charmed tetraquark $cc\bar c\bar c$ states including the S-wave radial excitations and the P-wave states with a nonrelativistic quark model. The quark model is composed of a vector one-gluon-exchange (OGE) and a scalar linear confinement interaction with the parameters determined by the charmonium spectrum. In the calculation, we consider both the $3_c-\bar 3_c$ and the $6_c-\bar{6}_c$ color representations. For the $cc\bar c\bar c $ state, the $6_c-\bar 6_c$ component is located lower than the $\bar 3_c-3_c$ one because of the stronger attractive interactions between the diquark and antidiquark. We focus on two excited modes and their properties for the P-wave tetraquarks. The mass splitting for the $\rho$-mode excitations with different color configurations is large. The low-lying $6_c-\bar 6_c$ $\rho$-mode component helps to explain the small mass gap between the ground S-wave and the P-wave tetraquark states. The recently observed $X(6900)$ state may be the candidate of the first radially excited tetraquarks with $J^{PC}=0^{++}$ or $2^{++}$, or the $1^{+-}$ or $2^{-+}$ P-wave states based on the mass spectrum. Moreover, the lowest $T_c$ states with the exotic $J^{PC}$ quantum numbers $0^{--}$ and $1^{-+}$ may decay into the P-wave $\eta_c J/\psi$ and di-$J/\psi$ modes, respectively. The future experimental search of these $T_c$ states will enrich the hadronic spectrum.

Highlights

  • Since 2003, dozens of the exotic states named as XYZ states were discovered in the mass range of the heavy quarkonium in experiments

  • Amounts of them cannot be categorized as the conventional QQ (Q 1⁄4 b, c) mesons, and are candidates of the multiquark states QQqqbased on their quantum numbers and decay channels

  • Various interpretations have been proposed for their nature, including the hadronic molecule, the compact tetraquark, the hado-charmonium, and so on

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Since 2003, dozens of the exotic states named as XYZ states were discovered in the mass range of the heavy quarkonium in experiments. The light-meson-exchange interaction between two charmonia is suppressed, while the heavy quarks could be bound through the short-range colored forces arising from the gluon-exchange interaction in QCD. They are more likely to be candidates of the compact tetraquark states instead of the molecules. The most popular interpretations are the compact tetraquark states [39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50] Other rare interpretations, such as coupledchannel effects of double-charmonium channels [51,52], cchybrid [53], a Higgs-like boson [54] and so on, are proposed. In the Appendix, we give the spin, spin-orbital and tensor factors used in the calculation

HAMILTONIAN AND WAVE FUNCTION
SPECTRUM OF S-WAVE TETRAQUARKS AND
P-WAVE TETRAQUARK SPECTRUM
POSSIBLE DECAY MODES
DISCUSSIONS
SUMMARY
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