Compactness, mass spectra, and strong stability of singly heavy tetraquarks

Abstract

We propose a Coulomb-like parameterization in terms of bag radius of the short-range chromo-electric interaction between heavy quarks and strange quarks within the framework of the MIT bag model for hadrons including multiquark systems and re-examine mass spectra of doubly and fully heavy baryons self-consistently and variationally. Building upon this, we apply this approach to systematically investigate the mass spectra and $S$-wave strong decay stability of singly heavy tetraquark systems, including $nQ\bar{n}\bar{n}$, $nQ\bar{s}\bar{n}$, $Qs\bar{n}\bar{n}$, $sQ\bar{s}\bar{n}$, and $sQ\bar{s}\bar{s}$ (with $Q=c,b$). Choosing the bag confinement energy as a compactness criterion, the bag radius is shown to be close to the confinement uplimit of the radius, $R_c = 5.615\,\text{GeV}^{-1}$, for the compact singly charmed systems,and for these systems some high-spin states are unlikely to form compact structures, while several others do exhibit potential for compactnessNotably, computation indicates that the state $T_{nc\bar{s}\bar{n}}(0^+,2.925)$ emerges as a compact tetraquark with relatively large strong decay width, a plausible candidate of the observed tetrquark $T_{c\bar{s}0}^{a}(2900)$.