Functional methods for hadron spectroscopy
We summarize recent results for four-quark states with hidden and open flavor obtained from a four-quark Bethe-Salpeter/Faddeev-Yakubowsky equation. The approach dynamically predicts the leading internal two-body clusters such as meson-meson, hadroquarkonium or diquark-antidiquark components. For hidden-flavor states, the meson-meson or hadroquarkonium configurations are dominant, while the diquark contributions are small. For open-flavor states, the situation is different and depends on the quark content: The $T_{bb}^-$ is a mixture of various components, where the diquark-antidiquark components are dominant, whereas the $T_{cc}^+$ is practically entirely dominated by $DD^\ast$ due to its proximity to the threshold. We also provide details on the analytic continuations and extrapolations to extract states above thresholds.
Authors
- Gernot Eichmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0546-2533)
- Joshua Hoffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-7179-3956)
- Christian S. Fischer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8780-7031)
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-10-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22323/1.483.0006
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.87
Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Helmholtz Graduate School for Hadron and Ion Research
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
- Austrian Science Fund
- GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung