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Steven R. Martinez

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arXiv2025

Meson-Meson Molecular Binding Potentials in the Diabatic Dynamical Diquark Model

Using the diabatic formalism, a rigorous generalization of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, we study the effects of introducing simple meson-meson molecular potentials to an established diquark model for tetraquark states, and calculate mixed bound states composed of both diquark-antidiquark and meson-meson molecular components. We examine the behavior of properties of the states as one varies the parameters of the di-meson potential, and find that significant regions of parameter space occur in which one may produce mass eigenstates exactly matching the specific examples of $χ_{c1}(3872)$ and $χ_{c0}(3915)$. We also find regions in which a pure di-meson molecular state emerges, and study the same state properties in such cases.

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arXiv2024

$T_{cc}$ in the Diabatic Diquark Model: Effects of $D^*D$ Isospin

$T_{cc}^+$ is an isoscalar 4-quark state with mass lying barely below the $D^{*+} D^0$ threshold, and several times further below the $D^{*0} D^+$ threshold. It allows both di-meson molecular and elementary diquark-antidiquark $(cc)(\bar u \bar d)$ substructures. The diabatic generalization of the adiabatic approximation within the Born-Oppenheimer formalism rigorously incorporates the mixing of such elementary eigenstates with states corresponding to two-particle thresholds. We examine the separate influence of the two $D^* \! D$ isospin channels and find that the influence of $D^{*+} D^0$ is larger than that of $D^{*0} D^+$ but not overwhelmingly so, and that $T_{cc}^+$ contains an $O(10\%)$ $(cc)(\bar u \bar d)$ component. We then explore the variation of these results if the isospin breaking between the di-meson thresholds is varied, and also the sensitivity of our results to variation of the mixing-potential parameters.

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arXiv2024

Diabatic Dynamical Diquark Bound States: Mass Corrections and Widths

Using the diabatic formalism, which generalizes the adiabatic approximation in the Born-Oppenheimer formalism, we apply well-known Hamiltonian methods to calculate the effect of open di-meson thresholds that lie well below the mass of elementary $c\bar c q\bar q^\prime$, $c\bar c s\bar s$, and $c \bar c q \bar s$ tetraquark bound states. We compute the resulting mass shifts for these states, as well as their decay widths to the corresponding meson pairs. Each mass eigenstate, originally produced using a bound-state approximation under the diabatic formalism, consists of an admixture of a compact diquark-antidiquark configuration (an eigenstate of the original dynamical diquark model) with an extended di-meson configuration induced by the nearest threshold. We compare our results with those from our recent work that employs a scattering formalism, and find a great deal of agreement, but also comment upon interesting discrepancies between the two approaches.

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arXiv2023

Exotic Hadrons from Scattering in the Diabatic Dynamical Diquark Model

The diabatic framework generalizes the adiabatic approximation built into the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) formalism, and is devised to rigorously incorporate the mixing of BO-approximation eigenstates with two-particle thresholds. We recently applied this framework in a bound-state approximation to the mixing of hidden-charm dynamical-diquark tetraquark states with open-charm di-meson thresholds. Since almost all of these states are observed as above-threshold resonances, we here implement the corresponding scattering formalism to allow for a study of exotic tetraquark resonances within the diabatic framework. We calculate elastic open-charm di-meson cross sections (in channels with zero, open, and hidden strangeness) as functions of center-of-mass energy, and observe the development of true resonances, near resonances, and various threshold cusp effects. As an example, $χ_{c1}(3872)$ can originate in the $1^{++}$ channel as a diquark-antidiquark state enhanced by the $D^0 \overline{D}^{*0}$ threshold, with or without an additional contribution from the conventional charmonium $χ_{c1}(2P)$ state.

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arXiv2022

Diabatic Representation of Exotic Hadrons in the Dynamical Diquark Model

We apply the diabatic formalism, an extension of the adiabatic approximation inherent to the Born-Oppenheimer (BO) approach of atomic physics, to the problem of mixing between exotic multiquark hadrons and their nearby di-hadron thresholds. The unperturbed BO eigenstates are obtained using the dynamical diquark model, while the diabatic calculation introduces a mixing potential between these states and the threshold states. We solve the resulting coupled Schrödinger equations numerically for hidden-charm tetraquarks of both open and closed strangeness to obtain physical mass eigenvalues, and explore the di-hadron state content and spatial extent of the eigenstates. As an explicit example, $X(3872)$ emerges with a dominant $D^0 \bar D^{*0}$ component, but also contains a considerable diquark-antidiquark component that can contribute significantly to its radiative decay widths, and this component also generates a full multiplet of other diquark-based exotic hadrons to be compared with experiment.

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arXiv2021

Spectrum of Hidden-Charm, Open-Strange Exotics in the Dynamical Diquark Model

The observation by BESIII and LHCb of states with hidden charm and open strangeness ($c\bar c q\bar s$) presents new opportunities for the development of a global model of heavy-quark exotics. Here we extend the dynamical diquark model to encompass such states, using the same values of Hamiltonian parameters previously obtained from the nonstrange and hidden-strange sectors. The large mass splitting between $Z_{cs}(4000)$ and $Z_{cs}(4220)$ suggests substantial SU(3)$_{\rm flavor}$ mixing between all $J^P \! = \! 1^+$ states, while their average mass compared to that of other sectors offers a direct probe of flavor octet-singlet mixing among exotics. We also explore the inclusion of $η$-like exchanges within the states, and find their effects to be quite limited. In addition, using the same diquark-mass parameters, we find $P_c(4312)$ and $P_{cs}(4459)$ to fit well as corresponding nonstrange and open-strange pentaquarks.

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