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Article

Fully Heavy Tetraquark Spectroscopy in the Relativistic Quark Model

by
Rudolf N. Faustov
1,
Vladimir O. Galkin
1 and
Elena M. Savchenko
1,2,*
1
Federal Research Center ”Computer Science and Control”, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vavilov Street 40, 119333 Moscow, Russia
2
Faculty of Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory 1-2, 119991 Moscow, Russia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Symmetry 2022, 14(12), 2504; https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14122504
Submission received: 28 October 2022 / Revised: 18 November 2022 / Accepted: 22 November 2022 / Published: 26 November 2022
(This article belongs to the Section Physics)

Abstract

:
Masses of the ground and excited (1P, 2S, 1D, 2P, 3S) states of the fully heavy tetraquarks, composed of charm (c) and bottom (b) quarks and antiquarks, are calculated in the diquark–antidiquark picture within the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach and quantum chromodynamics. The quasipotentials of the quark–quark and diquark–antidiquark interactions are constructed similarly to the previous consideration of mesons and baryons. Relativistic effects are consistently taken into account. A tetraquark is considered a bound state of a diquark and an antidiquark. The finite size of the diquark is taken into account, using the form factors of the diquark–gluon interaction. It is shown that most of the investigated states of tetraquarks lie above the decay thresholds into a meson pair; as a result, they can be observed only as broad resonances. The narrow state X(6900) recently discovered in the di- J / ψ production spectrum by the LHCb, CMS and ATLAS Collaborations corresponds to an excited state of the fully charmed tetraquark. Other recently discovered exotic heavy resonances, X(6200), X(6400), X(6600), X(7200), and X(7300), can also be interpreted as the different excitations of the fully charmed tetraquark.

1. Introduction

The quark model of hadrons predicts various possible stable combinations of valence quarks and antiquarks, but for many decades, only two kinds of combinations were observed: baryons, consisting of three quarks ( q q q ), and mesons, consisting of a quark and an antiquark ( q q ¯ ). Other possible combinations, such as tetraquarks ( q q q ¯ q ¯ ), pentaquarks ( q q q q q ¯ ), glueballs ( g g ), hybrids ( q q ¯ g ) and others, were called “exotic”.
For many years, the very existence of those states was unclear since there was no convincing experimental evidence for them. The first reliable candidate for an exotic state was the X(3872) particle (Belle 2003 [1]). This is a charmonium-like state with an extremely narrow width ( Γ = 1.19 ± 0.21 Mev [2]) and uncharacteristic decays breaking the isospin ( B r ( X ( 3872 ) ω J / ψ ) B r ( X ( 3872 ) π + π J / ψ ) = 1.1 ± 0.4 [1,3]). Thus, the X(3872) does not fit into the naive quark picture of hadrons except when in the form of the two-quark–two-antiquark state ( c u c ¯ u ¯ ). Soon after, the first explicitly exotic state Z c ± (4430) (LHCb 2014 [4]) was discovered. This particle is of special interest since it is the charged charmonium state. A nonzero electric charge means that, in addition to a pair of charmed quark and antiquark, it contains also a light quark and antiquark of different flavors ( c u c ¯ d ¯ , c d c ¯ u ¯ ). Currently a few dozen of candidates and reliably confirmed tetraquarks ( c c c ¯ c ¯ –- X(6900) – LHCb 2020 [5], CMS 2022 [6], ATLAS 2022 [7], etc.) and pentaquarks ( u u d c c ¯ P c + (4380), P c + (4450) – LHCb 2015 [8]) have been discovered. The most recent detailed review can be found in Ref. [9].
The unified theoretical picture of exotic states has not been developed yet. In the absence of a direct description of hadrons from first principles of QCD, theorists have to use model assumptions about the structure and nature of the interaction of quarks in exotic hadrons. As a result, there are theoretical approaches that assume a different composition of exotic states and methods for their nonperturbative description. The predictions obtained within their framework agree with experimental data with varying degrees of success. The object of our research from all exotic states is fully heavy tetraquarks, consisting of two heavy quarks and two heavy antiquarks. This choice significantly reduces the number of approaches applicable for their description. At the moment, there are already a number of theoretical calculations within the framework of different models, but there is no consensus on which of the predicted states are long-living enough for their experimental detection.
Experimental searches for such states are actively conducted at Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN. At present, the LHCb [5,10], CMS [6,11,12] and ATLAS [7] Collaborations are actively searching for fully charmed c c c ¯ c ¯ and fully bottom b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks. The fully charmed states c c c ¯ c ¯ are searched as the intermediate resonances in the processes p + p J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S ) , p + p J / ψ ( 1 S ) ψ ( 2 S ) and p + p J / ψ μ + μ at s = 7 , 8 and 13 TeV (LHCb). The predicted mass of the c c c ¯ c ¯ tetraquark lies in the range of 5.8 7.4 GeV. Searches for it were performed in the mass range 6.2 7.4 GeV. In 2020, the LHCb Collaboration announced the discovery of the narrow resonance X(6900) in the di- J / ψ spectrum [5], which, according to the measured mass and width, is a candidate for the excited c c c ¯ c ¯ state. Additionally, several other broad structures peaking at about 6.4 and 7.2 GeV were reported. They can be other excitations of the same c c c ¯ c ¯ tetraquark. Later in 2022, CMS [6] and ATLAS [7] Collaborations presented preliminary data confirming X(6900) and giving hints of a few more states including structures at 6.4 and 7.2 GeV.
In the sector of fully bottom tetraquarks b b b ¯ b ¯ , there has been no progress yet. These tetraquark states are searched as the intermediate resonances in the processes p + p Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S ) and p + p Υ μ + μ at s = 7 , 8 and 13 TeV (LHCb) and 8 and 13 TeV (CMS). The predicted mass of the b b b ¯ b ¯ state lies in the range of 18.4 18.8 GeV. Searches for the b b b ¯ b ¯ state were carried out in the mass range of 17.5 20.0 GeV (LHCb) [10], and 17.5 19.5 GeV (CMS) [11,12]. CMS also searched for the narrow resonances in the mass range 16.5 27 GeV. However, none of these studies revealed reliable signs of a resonance with properties expected for the exotic b b b ¯ b ¯ state in the given process and at such energies.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give a description and physical justification of the model for studying these tetraquark structures. In Section 3, we describe the relativistic quark model and its application to the calculation of the tetraquark mass spectra. In Section 4, we present the results of our calculations. In Section 5, we analyze our predictions, comparing them with the thresholds for the strong fall-apart decays. In Section 6, we give a comparison of our results with the predictions of other scientific groups. Finally, in Section 7, the results and conclusions are summarized.

2. Model Description of Fully Heavy Tetraquarks

Tetraquark is a bound state of two quarks and two antiquarks. There are six flavors of quarks, and according to their masses, they can be divided into two groups: light (with the current masses less than the Λ QCD 200 MeV, quark confinement energy) and heavy (with masses larger than Λ QCD ) quarks. Light quarks are the u-quark with mass 2 . 16 0.26 + 0.49 MeV, d-quark with mass 4 . 67 0.17 + 0.48 MeV and s-quark with mass 93 . 4 3.4 + 8.6 MeV. Heavy quarks are the c-quark with mass 1.27 ± 0.02 GeV, b-quark with mass 4 . 18 0.02 + 0.03 GeV and t-quark with mass 172.69 ± 0.30 GeV [2]. We will focus on the fully heavy tetraquarks. However, the t-quark is special. It is almost two orders of magnitude heavier than other heavy quarks, and thus, it quickly decays via the weak interaction, not having enough time to form a bound state [13]. Therefore, we will not consider it.
From the two flavors of quarks and antiquarks, many combinations can be made. We have already performed calculations for the ground states masses for all possible compositions [14,15]. However, given the large number of possible excited states, it is more rational to select and study those combinations that are easier to detect experimentally. The most convenient of these are the symmetric compositions: fully charmed c c c ¯ c ¯ , doubly charmed bottom c b c ¯ b ¯ , and fully bottom b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks. The reason for the preference of such combinations is that the tetraquarks are formed from the closely produced quark and antiquark pairs. Thus, the formation of these states requires the production of only two pairs ( 2 × c c ¯ , c c ¯ + b b ¯ and 2 × b b ¯ ), while the formation of other combinations requires the production of at least three pairs, which is a less probable event.
We consider the tetraquark as a bound state of a diquark Q Q and an antidiquark Q ¯ Q ¯ . This model is not new and is widely used in the hadron spectroscopy, giving good agreement between the calculations (for example, baryon masses) and experiments. Additionally, the theoretically predicted spectrum of possible baryon excitations in the genuine three-body picture is much wider than the experimentally observed one. The quark–diquark model of baryons, on the other hand, freezes some degrees of freedom and imposes the necessary restrictions that bring the theory into better agreement with the experiment [16,17].
Another widely used model for the tetraquarks description is a molecular picture. We consider such a picture of fully heavy tetraquarks to be significantly less probable. Indeed, in this case, the meson molecule model has the following main problems. The interaction between mesons in a molecule is either due to the van der Waals forces, or through the exchange of another meson containing the same quarks as in the molecule. The van der Waals forces are weak in general and cannot provide sufficient binding. In the fully heavy tetraquarks, only heavy mesons can be exchanged: c c ¯ , c b ¯ , b c ¯ , b b ¯ . Such an interaction is described by the Yukawa potential, and its strength decreases with the increasing mass of the exchanged meson. Therefore, such a potential can provide a weak coupling in the case of the exchange of the light mesons, such as pions ( M π ± = 139.57 MeV [2]), but in the considered case ( M m i n = M η c = 2983.9 ± 0.4 MeV [2]), the coupling will be vanishingly small.
In the diquark consideration, one must take into account that a (anti)diquark is a bound system of fermions, and therefore must obey the generalized Pauli principle: the complete wave function of a (anti)diquark must be antisymmetric. The diquark color representation can be either antitriplet (the antisymmetric color wave function) or sextet (the symmetric color wave function). However, in the case of sextet, the interaction potential between the quarks within the diquark is repulsive because the mean value of the product of the color SU(3) generators between sextet states is positive. Thus the corresponding diquark cannot be a bound state, which we consider inappropriate for our problem. The above argument applies to the antidiquark. In the following, we consider only color antitriplet diquarks. This means that if a (anti)diquark is composed of (anti)quarks of the same flavor (the symmetric flavor wave function), it can only have the symmetric spin wave function, thus being in the axialvector (A) state. If a diquark consists of quarks of different flavors, it can be either in the axialvector (A) or scalar (S) state.

3. Relativistic Diquark–Antidiquark Model

For the calculation of the masses of tetraquarks, we use the relativistic quark model based on the quasipotential approach and the diquark–antidiquark picture of tetraquarks. In this approach, the masses of tetraquarks are the solutions of the relativistic Schrödinger-type quasipotential equation [18,19,20]. This equation describes the bound state of two particles in a given quasipotential. We first apply it to the quark–quark system, forming a diquark and then to the diquark–antidiquark system forming a tetraquark [21,22]:
b 2 ( M ) 2 μ R ( M ) p 2 2 μ R ( M ) Ψ T , d ( p ) = d 3 q ( 2 π ) 3 V ( p , q ; M ) Ψ T , d ( q ) .
Here, p is a vector of the relative momentum, M is the mass of the bound state, and μ R is the relativistic reduced mass of the constituents given by
μ R = E 1 E 2 E 1 + E 2 = M 4 ( m 1 2 m 2 2 ) 2 4 M 3 ,
where m 1 , 2 are masses of the constituents and E 1 , 2 are the on-mass-shell energies of the constituents:
E 1 , 2 = M 2 m 2 , 1 2 + m 1 , 2 2 2 M .
b 2 ( M ) is the on-mass-shell relative momentum in the center-of-mass system squared:
b 2 ( M ) = [ M 2 ( m 1 + m 2 ) 2 ] [ M 2 ( m 1 m 2 ) 2 ] 4 M 2 ,
Ψ T , d ( p ) are the bound state wave functions, and V ( p , q ; M ) is the quasipotential operator of the constituents.
Equation (1) is relativistic. On the left-hand side, it contains relativistic kinematics: the reduced mass of the bound state μ R and the on-mass-shell relative momentum b 2 ( M ) are functions of the bound state mass M (Equation (2)). The relativistic dynamics is contained on the right-hand side of the Equation (1), in the quasipotential V ( p , q ; M ) . The quasipotential is constructed with the help of the off-mass-shell scattering amplitude, projected onto the positive-energy states, and contains all relativistic spin-independent and spin-dependent contributions.
Constructing the quasipotential of the quark–quark interaction, we assume that the effective interaction is the sum of the usual one-gluon exchange term with the mixture of the long-range vector and scalar linear confining potentials, where the vector confining potential vertex contains the additional Pauli term. Due to the difference in the Q Q and Q ¯ Q ¯ color states, the quark–quark interaction quasipotential is considered to be V Q Q = 1 2 V Q ¯ Q ¯ of the quark–antiquark interaction quasipotential [16] and is given by
V ( p , q ; M ) = u ¯ 1 ( p ) u ¯ 2 ( p ) V ( p , q ; M ) u 1 ( q ) u 2 ( q ) ,
with
V ( p , q ; M ) = V OGE + V conf . V + V conf . S = 1 2 4 3 α s D μ ν ( k ) γ 1 μ γ 2 ν one gluon exchange + V conf . V ( k ) Γ 1 μ ( k ) Γ 2 ; μ ( k ) + V conf . S ( k ) confinement .
Here k = p q , γ l μ , ν and u l λ ( p ) are the Dirac matrices and spinors:
u l λ ( p ) = ε l ( p ) + m l 2 ε l ( p ) 1 σ p ε l ( p ) + m l χ λ , l = 1 , 2 ,
where ε l ( p ) is the quark energy:
ε l ( p ) = m l 2 + p 2 , l = 1 , 2 ,
σ and χ λ are the Pauli matrices and spinors:
χ λ = 1 0 , 0 1 , λ = 1 , 2 .
α s is the running QCD coupling constant with freezing [23,24]:
α s ( μ 2 ) = 4 π ( 11 2 3 η f ) ln [ μ 2 + M B G 2 Λ 2 ] ,
with
μ = 2 m 1 m 2 ( m 1 + m 2 ) , M B G = 2.24 A = 0.95 GeV , Λ = 414 MeV , η f = 4 , Q = Q = c , 5 , Q , Q = c , b ,
where the scale μ is chosen to be equal to the reduced constituents mass, M B G is the background mass, Λ is the parameter of the running coupling constant obtained from the analysis of meson mass spectra and η f is the number of open flavors. D μ ν ( k ) is the gluon propagator in the Coulomb gauge:
D 00 ( k ) = 4 π k 2 , D i j ( k ) = 4 π k 2 δ i j k i k j k 2 , D 0 i = D i 0 = 0 , i , j = 1 , 3 ¯ .
Γ l μ is the effective long-range vector interaction vertex [25]. It contains both Dirac and Pauli terms:
Γ l ; μ ( k ) = γ μ + i κ 2 m l σ μ ν k ˜ ν , k ˜ = ( 0 , k ) , l = 1 , 2 ,
where σ μ ν is the commutator of the Dirac matrices, κ is the long-range anomalous chromomagnetic moment of quarks, and i κ 2 m l σ μ ν k ˜ ν is the anomalous chromomagnetic interaction. V conf . v , s are the vector and scalar confining potentials, which in the nonrelativistic limit in configuration space (consistent with the lattice calculations) have the form
V conf . V ( r ) = ( 1 ε ) V conf . ( r ) , V conf . S ( r ) = ε V conf . ( r ) , V conf . V ( r ) + V conf . S ( r ) = V conf . ( r ) = A r + B ,
where ε is the mixing coefficient. Therefore, in the nonrelativistic limit, the Q Q quasipotential reduces to
V Q Q NR ( r ) = 1 2 V Q Q ¯ NR ( r ) = 1 2 4 3 α s r + A r + B ,
reproducing the usual Cornell potential. Thus, our quasipotential can be viewed as its relativistic generalization. It contains both spin-independent and spin-dependent relativistic contributions.
Constructing the diquark–antidiquark quasipotential, we use the same assumptions about the structure of the short- and long-range interactions. We also take into account the finite size of the diquarks and their integer spin. The quasipotential then is given by [22,26]
V ( p , q ; M ) = < d ( P ) | J μ | d ( Q ) > 2 E d E d 4 3 α s D μ ν ( k ) < d ( P ) | J ν | d ( Q ) > 2 E d E d diquark gluon interation + Ψ d * ( P ) Ψ d * ( P ) [ J d ; μ J d μ V conf . V ( k ) + V conf . S ( k ) ] Ψ d ( Q ) Ψ d ( Q ) confinement .
Here, d and d denote the diquark and antidiquark, Q ( ) = ( E d ( ) ± q ) and P ( ) = ( E d ( ) , ± p ) are the initial and final diquark momenta, respectively, k = P Q , E d , d are the on-shell diquark energies (similar to Equation (3)):
E d = M 2 M d 2 + M d 2 2 M , E d = M 2 M d 2 + M d 2 2 M ,
where M d , d are the diquark and antidiquark masses. Ψ d ( p ) is the diquark wave function:
Ψ d ( p ) = 1 , scalar ϵ d ( p ) , axialvector diquarks ,
where ϵ d ( p ) is the polarization vector of an axialvector diquark with momentum p :
ϵ d ( p ) = ( ϵ d p ) M d , ϵ d + ( ϵ d p ) p M d ( M d + E d ( p ) ) , ϵ d μ ( p ) p μ = 0 ,
where E d ( p ) is the diquark energy (similar to Equation (8)):
E d ( p ) = M d 2 + p 2 .
J d ; μ is the effective long-range vector interaction vertex of the diquark:
J d ; μ = ( P + Q ) μ 2 E d E d scalar ( P + Q ) μ 2 E d E d + i μ d 2 M d μ ν k ˜ ν , axialvector diquarks ,
μ d = 0 ,
where μ d is the total chromomagnetic moment of the diquark, which we choose to be equal to zero to vanish the long-range chromomagnetic interaction. ( ρ σ ) μ ν is a fully antisymmetric tensor:
( ρ σ ) μ ν = i ( g μ ρ δ σ ν g μ σ δ ρ ν ) .
< d ( P ) | J μ | d ( Q ) > is the diquark–gluon interaction vertex (Figure 1), which accounts for the internal structure of the diquark and leads to the emergence of the form factor F ( r ) smearing the one-gluon exchange potential [21]:
< d ( P ) | J μ | d ( Q ) > = d 3 p d 3 q ( 2 π ) 6 Ψ ¯ d P ( p ) Γ μ ( p , q ) Ψ d Q ( q ) .
Here J μ is the quark current:
J μ = Q ¯ γ μ Q ,
where Q , Q ¯ denote the initial and final states of the quark, respectively. Γ μ ( p , q ) is the vertex function of the diquark interaction with the gluon field [27,28]:
Γ μ ( p , q ) = u ¯ Q 1 ( p 1 ) γ μ u Q 1 ( q 1 ) ( 2 π ) 3 δ ( p 2 q 2 ) + u ¯ Q 2 ( p 2 ) γ μ u Q 2 ( q 2 ) ( 2 π ) 3 δ ( p 1 q 1 ) ,
q l = ε l ( q ) Q M d ( q ) ± i = 1 3 n ( i ) ( Q ) q i , p l = ε l ( p ) P M d ( p ) ± i = 1 3 n ( i ) ( P ) p i , n ( i ) μ ( Q ) = Q i M d , δ i j + Q i Q j M d ( q ) ( E d ( Q ) + M d ( q ) ) , M d ( q ) = ε 1 ( q ) + ε 2 ( q ) , l = 1 , 2 Q , Q .
To take into account the finite size of the diquark, it is necessary to calculate the matrix elements of quark currents between diquarks < d ( P ) | J μ | d ( Q ) > . These matrix elements are elastic (diagonal) and can be parametrized by the set of form factors h + , 1 , 2 , 3 ( k 2 ) [21]. For a scalar diquark,
< S ( P ) | J μ | S ( Q ) > = h + ( k 2 ) ( P + Q ) μ ,
For an axialvector diquark,
< A ( P ) | J μ | A ( Q ) > = h 1 ( k 2 ) ϵ d * ( P ) · ϵ d ( Q ) ( P + Q ) μ + h 2 ( k 2 ) ϵ d * ( P ) · Q ϵ d ; μ ( Q ) + ϵ d ( Q ) · P ϵ d ; μ * ( P ) + h 3 ( k 2 ) 1 M A 2 ϵ d * ( P ) · Q ϵ d ( Q ) · P ( P + Q ) μ ,
where M A is the mass of the axialvector diquark.
The calculation shows that [16]
h + ( k 2 ) = h 1 ( k 2 ) = h 2 ( k 2 ) = F ( k 2 ) , h 3 ( k 2 ) = 0 ,
where F ( k 2 ) is the form factor in the momentum space:
F ( k 2 ) = M d E d M d + E d d 3 p ( 2 π ) 3 { [ Ψ ¯ d p + 2 ε Q 2 ( p ) M d + E d k ε Q 1 ( p ) + m Q 1 ε Q 1 ( p + k ) + m Q 1 × ε Q 1 ( p + k ) + ε Q 1 ( p ) 2 ε Q 1 ( p + k ) ε Q 1 ( p ) + pk 2 ( ε Q 1 ( p ) + m Q 1 ) ε Q 1 ( p + k ) ε Q 1 ( p ) Ψ d ( p ) ] + [ Ψ ¯ d p + 2 ε Q 1 ( p ) M d + E d k ε Q 2 ( p ) + m Q 2 ε Q 2 ( p + k ) + m Q 2 × ε Q 2 ( p + k ) + ε Q 2 ( p ) 2 ε Q 2 ( p + k ) ε Q 2 ( p ) + pk 2 ( ε Q 2 ( p ) + m Q 2 ) ε Q 2 ( p + k ) ε Q 2 ( p ) Ψ d ( p ) ] } .
The form factor F ( r ) is determined by the Fourier transform of the F ( k 2 ) k 2 which is then multiplied by r. Numerical calculations show that it can be parameterized with high accuracy as [21]
F ( r ) = 1 e ξ r ζ r 2 .
These form factors are shown in Figure 2.
Finally, we obtain the diquark–antidiquark interaction potential [15,26]:
V ( r ) = [ V Coul . ( r ) + V conf . ( r ) + 1 E 1 E 2 { p V Coul . ( r ) + V conf . V ( r ) p
1 4 Δ V conf . V ( r ) + V Coul . ( r ) L 2 2 r } ] + [ { 1 2 1 E 1 ( E 1 + M 1 ) + 1 E 2 ( E 2 + M 2 ) V Coul . ( r ) r 1 2 1 M 1 ( E 1 + M 1 ) + 1 M 2 ( E 2 + M 2 ) V conf . ( r ) r + μ d 4 1 M 1 2 + 1 M 2 2 V conf . V ( r ) r + 1 E 1 E 2 V Coul . ( r ) + μ d 4 E 1 M 1 + E 2 M 2 V conf . V ( r ) 1 r } L ( S 1 + S 2 ) + { 1 2 1 E 1 ( E 1 + M 1 ) 1 E 2 ( E 2 + M 2 ) V Coul . ( r ) r 1 2 1 M 1 ( E 1 + M 1 ) 1 M 2 ( E 2 + M 2 ) V conf . ( r ) r + μ d 4 1 M 1 2 1 M 2 2 V conf . V ( r ) r
+ 1 E 1 E 2 μ d 4 E 1 M 1 E 2 M 2 V conf . V ( r ) r } L ( S 1 S 2 ) ] + [ 1 3 E 1 E 2 1 r V Coul . ( r ) V Coul . ( r ) + μ d 2 4 E 1 E 2 M 1 M 2 1 r V conf . V ( r ) V conf . V ( r )
× 3 r 2 S 1 r S 2 r S 1 S 2 ]
+ [ 2 3 E 1 E 2 Δ V Coul . ( r ) + μ d 2 4 E 1 E 2 M 1 M 2 Δ V conf . V ( r ) S 1 S 2 ] ,
where p is the relative momentum, M 1 , 2 and E 1 , 2 are the masses and energies of the diquark and antidiquark, μ d is the total chromomagnetic moment of the diquark (we chose it to be zero), S d is the axialvector diquark spin, L is the relative orbital momentum of the system, and V conf . is the confining potential in the nonrelativistic limit:
V conf . = V conf . V + V conf . S = ( 1 ε ) ( A r + B ) + ε ( A r + B ) = A r + B ,
where ε are the scalar and vector confinement mixing coefficient, and the Coulomb potential V Coul . ( r ) is taken to be
V Coul . ( r ) 4 3 α s F 1 ( r ) F 2 ( r ) r .
F 1 , 2 ( r ) are the form factors that take into account the diquark sizes (Equation (32)).
In Equation (33), we explicitly separated the spin-independent (33.1) and spin-dependent terms: (33.2) for the spin–orbit, (33.3) for the tensor and (33.4) for the spin–spin interactions.
First, we calculate the masses and wave functions of the doubly heavy (anti)diquarks as the bound (anti)quark-(anti)quark states. It is done by solving Equation (1) with the quasipotential (5), (6)–(14) numerically. Then the masses of the tetraquarks and their wave functions are obtained for the bound diquark–antidiquark states with the same method.
Parameters such as the confinement potential mixing coefficient ε , anomalous chromomagnetic moment κ , parameter of the running coupling constant Λ , confining potential parameters A , B and quark masses m c , b are taken from our previous works on the study of the properties of mesons and baryons [25,29,30,31] and are given in the Table 1. The diquark masses M c c , c b , b b and the parameters of their form factors ξ and ζ were already calculated earlier [21,26] and are given in Table 2.

4. Masses of Fully Heavy Tetraquarks

The calculated mass spectra of fully heavy tetraquarks are given in Table 3. Masses of the ground states (1S) of all possible nine compositions of fully heavy tetraquarks (including symmetrical: c c c ¯ c ¯ , c b c ¯ b ¯ , b b b ¯ b ¯ , “mirrored”: c c b ¯ b ¯ , b b c ¯ c ¯ and nonsymmetrical: c c c ¯ b ¯ , c b c ¯ c ¯ , c b b ¯ b ¯ , b b c ¯ b ¯ ) have already been calculated in our previous work (we corrected the small numerical error in our original calculation of the ground c b c ¯ b ¯ states.) [14].
As it already was discussed in Section 2, a scalar (anti)diquark can be a part of a tetraquark only if the (anti)quarks that form it have different flavors. This means that the c c c ¯ c ¯ and b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks can consist only of axialvector diquarks and antidiquarks, while c b c ¯ b ¯ can also consist of a scalar and a mixture of axialvector and scalar diquarks and antidiquarks. As the result, we obtain more possible states for c b c ¯ b ¯ : an additional 12 mixed and 6 scalar states are added to 32 axialvector states.
As we see from Table 3, the diquark–antidiquark model of the tetraquarks predicts too many states, but not all of them can be observed experimentally due to the fast decay into two heavy mesons through the quark rearrangement. To limit the number of predicted states, we consider diquarks only in the ground color triplet state and assume that all excitations occur between the diquark and antidiquark. These excited states have more chances to be observed as resonances since such excitations lead to a larger separation between the diquark and antidiquark, increasing the mean distance between the heavy quark and antiquark, and thus reducing the probability of the fall-apart decay process. Contrarily, excitations within the diquark or/and antidiquark increase the diquark mass and thus produce a larger overlap between the diquark and antidiquark, which enhances the fall-apart decay processes. The chances that the predicted tetraquark states will be observed experimentally as relatively narrow resonances increase if their decays are suppressed by the phase space, which is determined by the difference between the tetraquark mass and the meson pair decay threshold. This issue is discussed in detail in the following section. However, the width of the resonance does not only depend on the phase space in the decay channel [32]. The excited states of the tetraquarks can be narrow, despite the large phase space, since it is necessary to overcome the suppression in the fall-apart process, either due to the centrifugal barrier for the orbital excitations or due to the presence of the nodes in the wave function of the radially excited state. This result is well-known from the study of exotic atoms where some of the states with a higher mass have smaller widths notwithstanding the larger phase space for the decay [33]. This occurs when the annihilation potential is added. Then the wave function is further pushed out of the conversion region reducing the overlap between the coupling potential and the square of the wave function, thus decreasing the decay width. The quantitative analysis of such decays is beyond the scope of the present paper. Note that in the literature, the arguments that some of these tetraquarks should be unbound were given on the basis of the hyperspherical harmonic expansion [34], the string dynamics [35], and the Hall–Post inequalities [36].

5. Threshold Analysis

If a mass of the tetraquark exceeds the sum of the masses of a meson pair composed of the same flavor quarks and antiquarks and its decay is not forbidden by quantum numbers (spin-parity J P C ), then the tetraquark will decay into this meson pair through the quark rearrangement via the strong interaction. This is the so-called fall-apart process, whose rate is governed by the difference of the tetraquark and threshold masses. If a mass of the tetraquark lies below the corresponding threshold, the decay is possible due to the heavy quark–antiquark annihilation into gluons or a radiative decay, but such processes are suppressed, making these tetraquarks narrow states.
In Table 4, Table 5, Table 6, Table 7 and Table 8, comparisons of the mass spectra of fully heavy tetraquarks, calculated by us (Table 3), with the meson pair decay thresholds are given. The values of the phase volume Δ are of special interest:
Δ = M Q Q Q ¯ Q ¯ M t h r ,
where M Q Q Q ¯ Q ¯ is the tetraquark mass and M t h r is the meson pair decay threshold. We are interested in the most probable decay modes for each tetraquark. They, in turn, correspond to the largest of possible values of Δ : Δ m a x . Therefore, in Table 4, Table 5, Table 6, Table 7 and Table 8, we compare tetraquark masses not with all possible thresholds, but only with the lowest ones ( [ M thr ] min Δ max more probable decay mode ).
Table 3. Masses M Q Q Q ¯ Q ¯ of the ground (1S) and excited (1P, 2S, 1D, 2P, 3S) c c c ¯ c ¯ , c b c ¯ b ¯ , b b b ¯ b ¯ states. d and d ¯ are the axialvector (A) or scalar (S) diquark and antidiquark, respectively. S is the total spin of the diquark–antidiquark system. All masses are given in MeV.
Table 3. Masses M Q Q Q ¯ Q ¯ of the ground (1S) and excited (1P, 2S, 1D, 2P, 3S) c c c ¯ c ¯ , c b c ¯ b ¯ , b b b ¯ b ¯ states. d and d ¯ are the axialvector (A) or scalar (S) diquark and antidiquark, respectively. S is the total spin of the diquark–antidiquark system. All masses are given in MeV.
d d ¯ StateS J PC M cc c ¯ c ¯ M cb c ¯ b ¯ M bb b ¯ b ¯
A A ¯ 1S0 0 + + 619012,83819,314
1 1 + 627112,85519,320
2 2 + + 636712,88319,330
1P0 1 663113,10319,536
1 0 + 662813,10019,533
1 + 663413,10319,535
2 + 664413,10819,539
2 1 663513,10319,534
2 664813,10919,538
3 666413,11619,545
2S0 0 + + 678213,24719,680
1 1 + 681613,25619,682
2 2 + + 686813,27219,687
1D0 2 + + 692113,30619,715
1 1 + 690913,29919,710
2 + 692013,30419,714
3 + 693213,31119,720
2 0 + + 689913,29319,705
1 + + 690413,29619,707
2 + + 691513,30119,711
3 + + 692913,30819,717
4 + + 694513,31719,724
2P0 1 709113,42819,820
1 0 + 710013,43119,821
1 + 709913,43119,821
2 + 709813,43119,822
2 1 711313,43419,823
2 711313,43519,823
3 711213,43619,824
3S0 0 + + 725913,55819,941
1 1 + 728713,56619,943
2 2 + + 733313,58019,947
1 2 A S ¯ ± S A ¯ 1S1 1 + ± 12,863
1P 0 ± 13,096
1 ± 13,099
2 ± 13,104
2S 1 + ± 13,257
1D 1 + ± 13,293
2 + ± 13,298
3 + ± 13,305
2P 0 ± 13,426
1 ± 13,426
2 ± 13,427
3S 1 + ± 13,566
S S ¯ 1S0 0 + + 12,856
1P 1 13,095
2S 0 + + 13,250
1D 2 + + 13,293
2P 1 13,420
3S 0 + + 13,559
Table 4. Masses M of the ground (1S) and excited (1P, 2S, 1D, 2P, 3S) c c c ¯ c ¯ states composed from the axialvector diquarks (Table 3) and the corresponding meson–meson thresholds. d and d ¯ are the axialvector (A) or scalar (S) diquark and antidiquark, respectively. S is the total spin of the diquark–antidiquark system. M t h r is the corresponding meson–meson threshold [2]. Δ is the difference between the tetraquark mass and threshold: Δ = M M t h r . All masses are given in MeV. For the states with the maximum Δ (corresponding to lightest threshold, main decay channel) less than 300 MeV, all possible thresholds and their Δ are given. For the states with maximum Δ above 300 MeV, only the lightest thresholds are shown. The states with maximum Δ less than 100 MeV are additionally highlighted in violet as most promising to be stable. We also give thresholds with a small negative Δ , since we do not take into account the errors of theoretical calculations. The candidates for the states recently observed by LHCb [5], CMS [6] and ATLAS [7] are highlighted in color: turquoise for X(6200) (ATLAS), emerald for X(6400) (LHCb) and X(6600) (CMS, ATLAS), green for X(6900) (LHCb, CMS, ATLAS), blue for X(7200) (LHCb, ATLAS) and X(7300) (CMS). Additionally, all di- J / ψ thresholds are shown in bold since these meson pairs are easiest to study in experiments.
Table 4. Masses M of the ground (1S) and excited (1P, 2S, 1D, 2P, 3S) c c c ¯ c ¯ states composed from the axialvector diquarks (Table 3) and the corresponding meson–meson thresholds. d and d ¯ are the axialvector (A) or scalar (S) diquark and antidiquark, respectively. S is the total spin of the diquark–antidiquark system. M t h r is the corresponding meson–meson threshold [2]. Δ is the difference between the tetraquark mass and threshold: Δ = M M t h r . All masses are given in MeV. For the states with the maximum Δ (corresponding to lightest threshold, main decay channel) less than 300 MeV, all possible thresholds and their Δ are given. For the states with maximum Δ above 300 MeV, only the lightest thresholds are shown. The states with maximum Δ less than 100 MeV are additionally highlighted in violet as most promising to be stable. We also give thresholds with a small negative Δ , since we do not take into account the errors of theoretical calculations. The candidates for the states recently observed by LHCb [5], CMS [6] and ATLAS [7] are highlighted in color: turquoise for X(6200) (ATLAS), emerald for X(6400) (LHCb) and X(6600) (CMS, ATLAS), green for X(6900) (LHCb, CMS, ATLAS), blue for X(7200) (LHCb, ATLAS) and X(7300) (CMS). Additionally, all di- J / ψ thresholds are shown in bold since these meson pairs are easiest to study in experiments.
QQ Q ¯ Q ¯ d d ¯ State S J PC M M thr Δ Meson Pair
c c c ¯ c ¯ A A ¯ 1S0 0 + + 6190 5968222 η c ( 1 S ) η c ( 1 S )
6194 4 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 62716081190 η c ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 6367 6194 173 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1P0 1 66316509122 η c ( 1 S ) h c ( 1 P )
6512119 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 0 ( 1 P )
660823 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 1 ( 1 P )
1 0 + 66286399229 η c ( 1 S ) χ c 0 ( 1 P )
66226 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h c ( 1 P )
1 + 66346495139 η c ( 1 S ) χ c 1 ( 1 P )
662212 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h c ( 1 P )
2 + 66446540104 η c ( 1 S ) χ c 2 ( 1 P )
662222 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h c ( 1 P )
2 1 66356509126 η c ( 1 S ) h c ( 1 P )
6512123 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 0 ( 1 P )
660827 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 1 ( 1 P )
6653−18 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 2 ( 1 P )
2 6648660840 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 1 ( 1 P )
6653−5 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 2 ( 1 P )
3 6664665311 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 2 ( 1 P )
2S0 0 + + 6782 15968814 η c ( 1 S ) η c ( 1 S )
6194 588 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 68166081735 η c ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 6868 6194 674 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1D0 2 + + 6921 6194 727 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 69096081828 η c ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
2 + 69206808112 η c ( 1 S ) ψ 2 ( 3823 )
3 + 69326827105 η c ( 1 S ) ψ 3 ( 3842 )
2 0 + + 6899 5968931 η c ( 1 S ) η c ( 1 S )
6194 705 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1 + + 6904 6194 710 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
2 + + 6915 6194 721 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
3 + + 692969218 J / ψ ( 1 S ) ψ 2 ( 3823 )
694019 J / ψ ( 1 S ) ψ 3 ( 3842 )
4 + + 694569405 J / ψ ( 1 S ) ψ 3 ( 3842 )
2P0 1 70916509582 η c ( 1 S ) h c ( 1 P )
1 0 + 71006399701 η c ( 1 S ) χ c 0 ( 1 P )
1 + 70996495604 η c ( 1 S ) χ c 1 ( 1 P )
2 + 70986540558 η c ( 1 S ) χ c 2 ( 1 P )
2 1 71136509604 η c ( 1 S ) h c ( 1 P )
2 71136608505 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 1 ( 1 P )
3 71126653459 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ c 2 ( 1 P )
3S0 0 + + 7259 59681291 η c ( 1 S ) η c ( 1 S )
6194 1065 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 728760811206 η c ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 7333 2 6194 1139 J / ψ ( 1 S ) J / ψ ( 1 S )
1 Candidate only for the X(6600) state. 2 Candidate only for the X(7300) state.
Table 5. Same as in Table 4 but for c b c ¯ b ¯ states composed from the axialvector (A) diquarks. Colors are explained in the caption of Table 4.
Table 5. Same as in Table 4 but for c b c ¯ b ¯ states composed from the axialvector (A) diquarks. Colors are explained in the caption of Table 4.
QQ Q ¯ Q ¯ d d ¯ State S J PC M M thr Δ Meson Pair
c b c ¯ b ¯ A A ¯ 1S0 0 + + 12,83812,383455 η c ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
1 1 + 12,85512,444411 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 12,88312,557326 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1P0 1 13,103 12,875228 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,883220 η c ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
12,924179 h c ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,956147 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
12,971132 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,990113 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
13,00994 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
13,01687 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 0 + 13,100 12,813287 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,843257 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
12,986114 h c ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,996104 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
1 + 13,103 12,877226 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
12,909194 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,986117 h c ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,996107 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
2 + 13,108 12,896212 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
12,955153 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,986122 h c ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,996112 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
1P2 1 13,103 12,875228 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,883220 η c ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
12,924179 h c ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,956147 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
12,971132 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,990113 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
13,00994 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
13,01687 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 13,109 12,971138 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,990119 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
13,009100 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
13,01693 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
3 13,116 13,009107 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
13,016100 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
2S0 0 + + 13,24712,383864 η c ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
1 1 + 13,25612,444812 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 13,27212,557715 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1D0 2 + + 13,30612,557749 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 13,29912,444855 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + 13,304 13,148156 η c ( 1 S ) Υ 2 ( 1 D )
13,22282 ψ 2 ( 3823 ) η b ( 1 S )
3 + 13,31113,24170 ψ 3 ( 3842 ) η b ( 1 S )
2 0 + + 13,29312,383910 η c ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
1 + + 13,29612,557739 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + + 13,30112,557744 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
3 + + 13,30813,26147 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ 2 ( 1 D )
13,28424 ψ 2 ( 3823 ) Υ ( 1 S )
13,3035 ψ 3 ( 3842 ) Υ ( 1 S )
4 + + 13,31713,30314 ψ 3 ( 3842 ) Υ ( 1 S )
2P0 1 13,42812,875553 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 0 + 13,43112,813618 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
1 + 13,43112,877554 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
2 + 13,43112,896535 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
2 1 13,43412,875559 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 13,43512,971464 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
3 13,43613,009427 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
3S0 0 + + 13,55812,3831175 η c ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
1 1 + 13,56612,4441122 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 13,58012,5571023 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
Table 6. Same as in Table 4 but for the c b c ¯ b ¯ states composed from the mixture of axialvector (A) and scalar (S) diquarks. Colors are explained in the caption of Table 4.
Table 6. Same as in Table 4 but for the c b c ¯ b ¯ states composed from the mixture of axialvector (A) and scalar (S) diquarks. Colors are explained in the caption of Table 4.
QQ Q ¯ Q ¯ d d ¯ StateS J PC M M thr Δ Meson Pair
c b c ¯ b ¯ 1 2 A S ¯ ± S A ¯ 1S1 1 + + 12,86312,557306 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 + 12,444419 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1P 0 + 13,09612,813283 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,843253 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
12,986110 h c ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,996100 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
0 12,971125 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,990106 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
1 + 13,09912,877222 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
12,909190 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,986113 h c ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,996103 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
1 12,875224 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,883216 η c ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
12,924175 h c ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,956143 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
12,971128 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,990109 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
13,00990 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
13,01683 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + 13,10412,896208 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
12,955149 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,986118 h c ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,996108 J / ψ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
2 12,971133 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,990114 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
13,009114 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
13,016114 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
2S 1 + + 13,25712,557700 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 + 12,444813 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1D 1 + + 13,29312,557736 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 + 12,444849 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + + 13,29812,557741 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + 13,148150 η c ( 1 S ) Υ 2 ( 1 D )
13,22276 ψ 2 ( 3823 ) η b ( 1 S )
3 + + 13,30513,26144 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ 2 ( 1 D )
13,28421 ψ 2 ( 3823 ) Υ ( 1 S )
13,3032 ψ 3 ( 3842 ) Υ ( 1 S )
3 + 13,24164 ψ 3 ( 3842 ) η b ( 1 S )
2P 0 + 13,42612,813613 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
0 12,971455 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 + 13,42612,877549 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
1 12,875551 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + 13,42712896531 η c ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
2 12,971456 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
3S 1 + + 13,56612,5571009 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 + 12,4441122 η c ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
Table 7. Same as in Table 4 but for the c b c ¯ b ¯ states composed from the scalar (S) diquarks.
Table 7. Same as in Table 4 but for the c b c ¯ b ¯ states composed from the scalar (S) diquarks.
QQ Q ¯ Q ¯ d d ¯ StateS J PC M M thr Δ Meson Pair
c b c ¯ b ¯ S S ¯ 1S0 0 + + 12,85612,383473 η c ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
1P 1 13,09512,875220 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,883212 η c ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
12,924171 h c ( 1 P ) η b ( 1 S )
12,956139 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
12,971124 χ c 1 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
12,990105 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
13,00986 J / ψ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
13,01679 χ c 2 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
2S 0 + + 13,25012,383867 η c ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
1D 2 + + 13,29312,557736 J / ψ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2P 1 13,42012,875545 χ c 0 ( 1 P ) Υ ( 1 S )
3S 0 + + 13,55912,3831176 η c ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
From Table 4, Table 5, Table 6, Table 7 and Table 8, a number of conclusions can be drawn. First of all, with the exception of the two following states,
X b b b b 1 D S = 1 3 + 19,720 M e V
X b b b b 1 D S = 2 4 + + 19,724 M e V ,
for all other tetraquark states, there is at least one meson pair with a total mass less than the tetraquark mass ( Δ max > 0 ). Therefore, for almost all tetraquarks, there is a possibility of such fall-apart decay.
For most tetraquarks, the value of Δ m a x significantly exceeds 300 MeV. These tetraquarks lie significantly higher than the decay thresholds and, thus, they rapidly fall apart in the meson pair due to the quark and antiquark rearrangements. This means that, experimentally, such a state will manifest itself not as a narrow, but as a wide resonance, which is hard to observe. However, such arguments can be applied only to the ground states of tetraquarks. For the excited states, there are additional restrictions. In particular, these decays will be suppressed either by the centrifugal barrier between the quark and antiquark (for the orbital excitations), or by the zeros of the wave function (for the radial excitations), or both simultaneously, and therefore, such tetraquark states can be observed as narrow resonances.
Next, there are also states for which 0 < Δ m a x < 300 MeV. Such states are close to the meson pair decay threshold and, thus, these fall-apart decays have a small phase. For such states, we show in Table 4, Table 5, Table 6, Table 7 and Table 8 not only Δ m a x , but also all close-lying decay channels and their corresponding Δ in the range 50 Δ 300 MeV. Small negative Δ are given because our calculations have a theoretical error. The uncertainties of our calculations come from the quark model and diquark–antiduark approximation. We roughly estimate them from our previous experience to be about 20–50 MeV. However, if the value of Δ max is sufficiently negative, the state cannot decay via the strong fall-apart decay processes into two Q Q ¯ quarkonia, and the main channels will be either a decay due to the heavy quark–antiquark annihilation into gluons with their subsequent hadronization into the lighter hadrons (strongly suppressed according to the Okubo–Zweig–Iizuka rule), or radiative decays (if allowed). As a result, this state will be a narrow state that can be observed experimentally in other decay channels: either to hadrons made up of lighter quarks and antiquarks, or two quarkonia and a photon.
Table 8. Same as in Table 4 but for the b b b ¯ b ¯ states composed from the axialvector (A) diquarks. The states with maximum Δ less than 100 MeV are additionally highlighted in violet as most promising to be stable. The states with negative maximum Δ are highlighted in red for the same reason. Additionally, di- Υ ( 1 S ) thresholds are shown in bold since these meson pairs are easiest to study in experiments.
Table 8. Same as in Table 4 but for the b b b ¯ b ¯ states composed from the axialvector (A) diquarks. The states with maximum Δ less than 100 MeV are additionally highlighted in violet as most promising to be stable. The states with negative maximum Δ are highlighted in red for the same reason. Additionally, di- Υ ( 1 S ) thresholds are shown in bold since these meson pairs are easiest to study in experiments.
QQ Q ¯ Q ¯ d d ¯ StateS J PC M M thr Δ Meson Pair
b b b ¯ b ¯ A A ¯ 1S0 0 + + 19 , 314 18,798516 η b ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
18 , 921 393 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 19,32018,859461 η b ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 19 , 330 18 , 921 409 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1P0 1 19,53619,298238 η b ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
19,320216 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
19,353183 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
19,373163 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
1 0 + 19,53319,258275 η b ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
19,360173 Υ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
1 + 19,53519,291244 η b ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
19,360175 Υ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
2 + 19,53919,311228 η b ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
19,360179 Υ ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
2 1 19,53419,298236 η b ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
19,320214 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
19,353181 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
19,373161 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
2 19,53819,353185 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
19,373165 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
3 19,54519,373172 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
2S0 0 + + 19 , 680 18,798882 η b ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
18 , 921 759 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 19,68218,859823 η b ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 19 , 687 18 , 921 766 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1D0 2 + + 19 , 715 18 , 921 794 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 19,71018,859851 η b ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + 19,71419,562152 η b ( 1 S ) Υ 2 ( 1 D )
3 + 19,72019,812-92 h b ( 1 P ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
2 0 + + 19 , 705 18,798907 η b ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
18 , 921 784 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 + + 19 , 707 18 , 921 786 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 + + 19 , 711 18 , 921 790 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
3 + + 19,71719,62493 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ 2 ( 1 D )
4 + + 19,72419,824-100 χ b 2 ( 1 P ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
2P0 1 19,82019,298522 η b ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
1 0 + 19,82119,258563 η b ( 1 S ) χ b 0 ( 1 P )
1 + 19,82119,291530 η b ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
2 + 19,82219,311511 η b ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
2 1 19,82319,298525 η b ( 1 S ) h b ( 1 P )
2 19,82319,353470 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 1 ( 1 P )
3 19,82419,373451 Υ ( 1 S ) χ b 2 ( 1 P )
3S0 0 + + 19 , 941 18,7981143 η b ( 1 S ) η b ( 1 S )
18 , 921 1020 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
1 1 + 19,94318,8591084 η b ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
2 2 + + 19 , 947 18 , 921 1026 Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
All possible di- J / ψ and di- Υ ( 1 S ) decay thresholds are also given in Table 4, Table 5, Table 6, Table 7 and Table 8 (and highlighted in bold). Such decay channels are the most convenient for the experimental studies since these mesons have a characteristic decay into a μ + μ pair with branching fractions 5 % and, thus, have a clear experimental signature.
So far, the results of experimental searches are fully correlated with our conclusions. In particular, the LHCb, CMS and ATLAS Collaborations are searching for the fully charmed c c c ¯ c ¯ and fully bottom b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks. In Table 9, the masses and widths of all currently observed fully charmed tetraquark states and our candidates for the interpretation of such states are given. One state named X(6900) has already been reliably detected by all three Collaborations (LHCb 2020 [5], CMS 2022 [6], ATLAS 2022 [7]). It is clearly a candidate for the excited fully charmed state. Moreover, the measured value of its mass is very close to our prediction. In fact, we have five candidates for this resonance with the masses within the range of 50 MeV from the measured X(6900) mass. Thus, it is important to measure the quantum numbers of this state(s). Additionally LHCb data indicate two wide and not very distinctive peaks near 6.4 GeV and 7.2 GeV, which can also be interpreted as ground and excited fully charmed tetraquark states.
Very recently, the CMS [6] and ATLAS [7] Collaborations reported preliminary results on the observation of exotic charmed states. The CMS Collaboration observed three distinct states in the J / ψ J / ψ mass spectrum: X(6600), X(6900) and X(7300). The ATLAS Collaboration observed four distinct states in the di- J / ψ and J / ψ + ψ ( 2 S ) channels: X(6200), X(6600), X(6900) and X(7200). As it was already pointed out before, X(6900) is the most prominent of them all since it was observed by all three experiments with very close mass. The peaking structure around 7.2 GeV in LHCb data was confirmed in these experiments (X(7200) and X(7300)). The X(6200) observed by ATLAS is very close to our prediction for the lowest ground state 0 + + with the mass 6190 MeV. The authors of Ref. [37] also predicted this state from the analysis of the LHCb data back in 2021. For the X(6600) structure observed both by CMS and ATLAS, we also propose candidates but with greater deviations from central values of the observed mass.
On the other hand, searches for the fully bottom tetraquark in the process
p p X b b b ¯ b ¯ Υ ( 1 S ) Υ ( 1 S )
in the mass range 17.5–20 GeV (covering the mass range we predict to be 19.3–20 GeV) have not yet yielded any results (LHCb 2018 [10], CMS 2017 [11], 2020 [12]). Moreover, lattice calculations [38] do not find fully bottom tetraquark bound states in this mass region. Such a conclusion correlates with our results that the masses of the fully bottom tetraquarks are significantly higher than the decay thresholds. Thus, these states rapidly fall apart and can appear only as wide, hard-to-detect resonances. However, according to our calculations, there are two states of such tetraquarks, corresponding to high orbital excitations with high values of total spin J that lie below any decay thresholds; these are the states already mentioned in (37) and (38). Therefore, these states can be observed as narrow states decaying to lighter hadrons.

6. Theoretical Predictions

In Table 10, Table 11, Table 12, Table 13, Table 14, Table 15, Table 16, Table 17, Table 18, Table 19, Table 20, Table 21, Table 22, Table 23, Table 24, Table 25, Table 26, Table 27, Table 28, Table 29 and Table 30, we compare our predictions for the masses (Table 3) with the results of other scientific groups obtained in different theoretical approaches.
We introduced abbreviations in Table 10, Table 11, Table 12, Table 13, Table 14, Table 15, Table 16, Table 17, Table 18, Table 19, Table 20, Table 21, Table 22, Table 23, Table 24, Table 25, Table 26, Table 27, Table 28, Table 29 and Table 30, but only in cases when the authors used different models or parameter values within the same work. The most common abbreviations are the following.
  • DA, MM, mix—diquark–antidiquark, meson–meson models and their mixing;
  • (I-III) d —different sets of variable parameter values (quark masses, potential parameters, constants, etc.).
Other abbreviations that occur a few times only are as follows:
  • SpB, OscI,II [39]—spherical bag model and oscillating potential model;
  • QDCSM, ChQM [40]—quark delocalization color screening model and chiral quark model;
  • RSM [41]—real scaling method;
  • Cur, Op [42,43]—different expressions for currents;
  • LO, NLO, NLO⊕G3 [42,44]—higher corrections;
  • CQM, CMIM, MCFTM [45]—constituent quark model, color-magnetic interaction model and multiquark color flux-tube model;
  • K [46,47]—other geometric configurations of the system that are neither diquark nor meson;
  • NR, Rel [48]—non-relativistic and relativistic considerations, respectively;
  • Bt, Fl [49]—“butterfly” and “flip-flop” potentials.
  • In many papers using the diquark–antidiquark picture, the cases of color antitriplet-diquark–triplet-antidiquark 3 ¯ 3 and color sextet-diquark–antisextet-antidiquark 6 6 ¯ were considered. As we discussed in Section 2, in the color sextet (anti)diquark, the interaction potential between (anti)quarks within the (anti)diquark is repulsive, and thus a corresponding diquark cannot be a bound state, which we consider inappropriate for our problem. Therefore, in Table 10, Table 11, Table 12, Table 13, Table 14, Table 15, Table 16, Table 17, Table 18, Table 19, Table 20, Table 21, Table 22, Table 23, Table 24, Table 25, Table 26, Table 27, Table 28, Table 29 and Table 30, we give theoretical predictions for the masses calculated only for the 3 ¯ 3 configuration. If the results were a mixture of two configurations, we chose those masses that contain more of the triplet state in percentage. We note a general trend: in almost all cases, the calculated masses of sextet configurations turned out to be approximately 10 100 MeV higher than their triplet counterparts.
  • In some papers (for example, [50]), tetraquarks containing excited diquarks were also considered. Again, as discussed in Section 2, we have limited ourselves to diquark ground states. Therefore, the masses of such tetraquarks, composed of excited diquarks, are not included in our comparison.
  • * in [39] for model 1, corrections were calculated only for all 1S states and for the two lowest 1P states; corrections for all other states were not calculated.
  • ** Two cases were considered in [51]: the presence and absence of the heavy η b -meson exchange. The results only for the case without such an exchange are given.
  • *** in [42], LO results were also obtained, but they are quite similar to NLO⊕G3, so we do not present them.
  • **** in [44], all results were obtained in two mass schemes: in the M S ¯ -scheme and on-Shell-scheme. In view of the already colossal number of results of this study, we took the masses only in the M S ¯ -scheme.
Table 10. Comparison of theoretical predictions for the masses of the c c c ¯ c ¯ tetraquark ground state (1S) with the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. S is the total spin of the diquark–antidiquark system. All masses are given in MeV. Masses are sorted chronologically, oldest predictions first. Our results are given in bold.
Table 10. Comparison of theoretical predictions for the masses of the c c c ¯ c ¯ tetraquark ground state (1S) with the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. S is the total spin of the diquark–antidiquark system. All masses are given in MeV. Masses are sorted chronologically, oldest predictions first. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1S
S 012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our619062716367
 [52]6200
[39]6276 (DA, SpB);
6426 (DA, OscI);
6450 (DA, OscII);
6221, 6260 (MM, SpB)
6276 (DA, SpB);
6440 (DA, OscI);
6450 (DA, OscII);
6221, 6260 (MM, SpB)
6276 (DA, SpB);
6469 (DA, OscI);
6450 (DA, OscII);
6221, 6260 (MM, SpB)
[53]647765286573
[54]6038∼61156101∼61766172∼6216
[55]597060506220
[56]596660516223
[57] 5300 ± 500
[58] 6192 ± 25
[59] 5990 ± 80 6090 ± 80
[60,61] 6460 ± 160 ,
6470 ± 160
6510 ± 150 6510 ± 150
[62]701668996956
[48] 6140
[63,64]596960216115
[65]648765006524
[66] 5970 ± 40
[67] 6050 ± 80
[68]6425 (Id);
6483 (IId)
6425 (Id);
6450 (IId)
6432 (Id);
6479 (IId)
[69]588361206246
[70] 6192 ± 25 6429 ± 25
[40]6128, 6270,
6358 (DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
6466, 6482,
6493 (DA, ChQM (I-III) d );
5961∼6206 (MM, QDCSM (I-III) d );
5961∼6701 (MM, ChQM (I-III) d )
6149, 6285,
6375 (DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
6479, 6488,
6495 (DA, ChQM (I-III) d );
6079∼6088 (MM, QDCSM (I-III) d );
6079∼6575 (MM, ChQM (I-III) d )
6197, 6314,
6407 (DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
6498, 6499,
6505 (DA, ChQM (I-III) d );
6197∼6207 (MM, QDCSM (I-III) d );
6197∼6602 (MM, ChQM (I-III) d )
[71]654265156543
[50]645565006524
[41]6360 (DA);
5973 (MM);
5973 (mix);
6510 (RSM)
6398 (DA);
6084 (MM);
6084 (mix);
6600 (RSM)
6410 (DA);
6194 (MM);
6194 (mix);
6708 (RSM)
[72]5960 (Id);
6198 (IId)
6009 (Id);
6246 (IId)
6100 (Id);
6323 (IId)
[42,43] 6450 ± 75 (DA, Cur, NLO⊕G3);
6471 ± 67 (DA, Op, NLO⊕G3);
6029 ± 198 , 6376 ± 367 ,
6494 ± 66 , 6675 ± 98 (MM)
[73]6469 (DA);
6536, 6657 (MM);
6423, 6650 (mix)
6674 (DA);
6671 (MM);
6627 (mix)
7026 (DA);
7030 (MM);
7014 (mix)
[74]635164416471
[75]647664416475
[45]6573 (CQM);
6035 (CMIM);
6454 (MCFTM)
6580 (CQM);
6139 (CMIM);
6463 (MCFTM)
6607 (CQM);
6194 (CMIM);
6486 (MCFTM)
[76] 6460 170 + 130
[77]6200
[78] 6520 ± 100 6570 ± 100 6600 ± 100
[79]6419 (Id);
6390 (IId);
6415 (IIId)
6456 (Id);
6419 (IId);
6454 (IIId)
6516 (Id);
6476 (IId);
6514 (IIId)
[80]6196
[81] 6440 ± 110 , 6520 ± 110 ,
6870 ± 110 , 6960 ± 110
-
[82]627162316287
[46,47]6421 (DA);
5936, 6268 (MM);
6150, 6340 (K)
6439 (DA);
6070, 6325 (MM);
6271, 6436 (K)
6472 (DA);
6204, 6338 (MM);
6358, 6473 (K)
[83]593959866079
[84]649864816502
[85]646664946551
[86]69065955 (Id);
6896 (IId)
5960
[87]632263546385
[88] 6360 160 + 180 , 6540 180 + 190 6470 170 + 180 6520 170 + 170
[89]6270 (Id);
6271 (IId);
6201 (IIId)
6424 (Id);
6435 (IId);
6396 (IIId)
6424 (Id);
6435 (IId);
6391 (IIId)
[90] 6055 74 + 69 6090 66 + 62
[91]7438-7542
[49]6874 (Bt);
6850 (FL);
6822 (mix)
6913 (Bt);
6870 (FL);
6822 (mix)
6990 (Bt);
6913 (FL);
6822 (mix)
[92]597861556263
[44] 6070 70 + 50 , 6070 100 + 80 (DA, LO);
6600 100 + 90 , 6690 120 + 100 (DA, NLO);
5090 80 + 60 7110 150 + 130 (MM, LO);
6360 100 + 60 8330 150 + 130 (MM, NLO)
6080 100 + 40 (DA, LO);
6650 130 + 100 (DA, NLO);
6040 80 + 60 7070 160 + 140 (MM, LO);
6650 100 + 90 8320 200 + 180 (MM, NLO)
6070 100 + 80 , 6150 100 + 80 (DA, LO);
6980 110 + 90 , 7250 110 + 100 (DA, NLO);
6110 80 + 60 7100 150 + 130 (MM, LO);
7030 120 + 100 8890 240 + 210 (MM, NLO)
[93] 6200 ± 100 6240 ± 100 6270 ± 90
[94]7035, 72027050, 72747069, 7281
[95]638464526483
[96]603561376194
Table 11. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital excitation (1P). Our results are given in bold.
Table 11. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital excitation (1P). Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1P
S012
J PC 1 0 + 1 + 2 + 1 2 3
Our6631662866346644663566486664
 [97]6550655065506550655065506550
[39]6694 (OscI);
6714 (OscII)
6695 (OscI);
6714 (OscII)
6718 (OscI);
6714 (OscII)
6718 (OscI);
6714 (OscII)
6718 (OscI);
6714 (OscII)
6718 (OscI);
6714 (OscII)
6718 (OscI);
6714 (OscII)
[53]7004696970137033
[54]6998∼70526993∼70517275∼73637002∼7055 7278∼7357
[98] 6420 32 + 29 (DA);
6411 43 + 25 (MM)
[60,61] 6830 ± 180 6850 ± 180 6880 ± 180
[63,64]6577648065776610649566006641
[67] 6110 ± 80
[69]65806596 6584
[50]6636668166766667676866306801
[83]6553646065546587645965776623
[84]6740672367436752674067396753
[86]6060 (Id);
6999 (IId)
6054 (Id);
6995 (IId)
6054 (Id);
6995 (IId)
6054 (Id);
6995 (IId)
6056 (Id);
6996 (IId)
6056 (Id);
6996 (IId)
6056 (Id);
6996 (IId)
[88] 6990 200 + 230 ,
7170 220 + 280
7000 200 + 230 ,
7020 200 + 240
6980 190 + 210 ,
7070 190 + 210
[44] 6610 150 + 120
(DA, LO);
7970 170 + 100
(DA, NLO);
6530 140 + 110
6610 140 + 120
(MM, LO);
7550 150 + 140
8090 160 + 60
(MM, NLO)
6540 140 + 120
(DA, LO);
7510 160 + 120
(DA, NLO);
6530 140 + 120
6560 150 + 120
(MM, LO);
7300 130 + 110
8530 190 + 150
(MM, NLO)
6530 160 + 110
(DA, LO);
8020 170 + 80
(DA, NLO);
6530 140 + 110
6610 140 + 120
(MM, LO);
7550 150 + 140
8090 160 + 60
(MM, NLO)
[93] 6330 ± 100
Table 12. Same as in Table 10 but for the first radial excitation (2S). Our results are given in bold.
Table 12. Same as in Table 10 but for the first radial excitation (2S). Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State2S
S012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our678268166868
 [63,64]666366756698
[68] 6856 (Id);
6894 (IId)
6864 (Id);
6919 (IId)
[69]657366696739
[70] 6871 ± 25 6967 ± 25
[40]6950, 6975 (DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
6825, 6900, 6910 (DA, ChQM (I-III) d )
7250, 7280 (DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
7250, 7275, 7280 (DA, ChQM (I-III) d )
[71]694069286948
[75]690868966921
[99] 6480 ± 80 6520 ± 80 6560 ± 80
[79]6916 (Id);
6773 (IId);
6924 (IIId)
6957 (Id);
6792 (IId);
6966 (IIId)
7001 (Id);
6843 (IId);
7011 (IIId)
[83]664266546676
[84]700769546917
[85]688369116968
[86]7073 (Id);
8095 (IId)
7025 (Id);
8060 (IId)
7041 (Id);
8072 (IId)
[87]657566096639
[89]6393 (Id);
6411 (IId);
6575 (IIId)
6458 (Id);
6502 (IId);
6799 (IIId)
6458 (Id);
6502 (IId);
6794 (IIId)
[90] 6555 37 + 36 6566 35 + 34
[100]690869196927
[93] 6570 ± 90 6640 ± 90 6690 ± 90
Table 13. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D). Our results are given in bold.
Table 13. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D). Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1D
S012
J PC 2 + + 1 + 2 + 3 + 0 + + 1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
Our692169096920693268996904691569296945
 [97]678067806780678067806780678067806780
[54] 6586∼6648 6530∼6609
[60,61] 6340 ± 190
[69]68276829 682768276827
[40] 7140, 7150,
7170
(DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
7150, 7160
(DA, ChQM (I-III) d )
[100]683268336835684468486851685768636870
[44] 7040 150 + 130
(DA, LO);
7410 300 + 230
(DA, NLO);
6040 80 + 60
7070 160 + 140
(MM, LO);
6650 100 + 90
8320 200 + 180
(MM, NLO)
Table 14. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital and radial excitation (2P). Our results are given in bold.
Table 14. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital and radial excitation (2P). Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State2P
S012
J PC 1 0 + 1 + 2 + 1 2 3
Our7091710070997098711371137112
 [63,64]6944686769446970687669626997
[69]69406953 6943
[99] 6580 ± 90
[83]6925685169266951684969446982
[86]7143 (Id);
8174 (IId)
7130 (Id);
8162 (IId)
7130 (Id);
8162 (IId)
7130 (Id);
8162 (IId)
7134 (Id);
8166 (IId)
7134 (Id);
8166 (IId)
7134 (Id);
8166 (IId)
[93] 6740 ± 90
Table 15. Same as in Table 10 but for the second radial excitation (3S). Our results are given in bold.
Table 15. Same as in Table 10 but for the second radial excitation (3S). Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State3S
S012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our725972877333
 [68] 6915 (Id);
7036 (IId)
6919 (Id);
7058 (IId)
[69]694870167071
[40]7225, 7250 (DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
7210, 7250, 7260 (DA, ChQM (I-III) d )
[71]706370527064
[75]729673007320
[99] 6940 ± 80 6960 ± 80 7000 ± 80
[79]7224 (Id);
7054 (IId);
7229 (IIId)
7263 (Id);
7066 (IId);
7268 (IIId)
7257 (Id);
7097 (IId);
7258 (IIId)
[83]701070177032
[84] 70247030
[85]722572537310
[87]678268146842
[89]6441 (Id);
6477 (IId);
6897 (IIId)
6464 (Id);
6536 (IId);
7148 (IIId)
6464 (Id);
6536 (IId);
7148 (IIId)
[90] 6883 27 + 27 6890 26 + 27
[100]724072437248
[93] 6920 ± 90 7030 ± 90 7090 ± 90
Table 16. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 16. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1S
S012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our12,83812,85512,883
 [56]12,47112,48812,566
[62]13,48313,59213,590
[48] 12 , 620
[65]12,86412,86412,884
[101]12,746 (DA);
12,322, 12,684 (MM);
12,322 (mix)
12,776 (DA);
12,432, 12,737 (MM);
12,432 (mix)
12,809 (DA);
12,561, 12,791 (MM);
12,561 (mix)
[69]12,37412,49112,576
[74]12,53412,51012,582
[45]13,043 (CQM);
12,354 (CMIM);
12,955 (MCFTM)
13,052 (CQM);
12,436 (CMIM);
12,955 (MCFTM)
13,084 (CQM);
12,548 (CMIM);
12,984 (MCFTM)
[81] 12 , 510 ± 100 , 12 , 580 ± 100 ,
12 , 670 ± 100 , 12 , 740 ± 110
-
[82]12,68212,72012,755
[46,47]12,861 (DA);
12,369, 12,809 (MM);
12,599, 12,717 (K)
12,888 (DA);
12,431, 12,843 (MM);
12,635, 12,768 (K)
12,926 (DA);
12,565, 12,885 (MM);
12,771, 12,844 (K)
[102] 12 , 460 150 + 170 12 , 380 120 + 130 12 , 300 140 + 150
[90] 12 , 387 120 + 109 12,401 106 + 117
[92]12,50312,01612,897
[95]12,75912,79712,882
[96]12,59512,57312,597
Table 17. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital excitation (1P) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 17. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital excitation (1P) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1P
S 012
J PC 1 0 + 1 + 2 + 1 2 3
Our13,10313,10013,10313,10813,10313,10913,116
 [69]12,93412,943 12,944
Table 18. Same as in Table 10 but for the first radial excitation (2S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 18. Same as in Table 10 but for the first radial excitation (2S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State2S
S012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our13,24713,25613,272
 [69]12,97513,02213,063
[90] 12 , 911 51 + 48 12 , 914 49 + 49
Table 19. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 19. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1D
S012
J PC 2 + + 1 + 2 + 3 + 0 + + 1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
Our13,30613,29913,30413,31113,29313,29613,30113,30813,317
 [69]13,16613,167 13,17013,16813,166
Table 20. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital and radial excitation (2P) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 20. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital and radial excitation (2P) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State2P
S012
J PC 1 0 + 1 + 2 + 1 2 3
Our13,42813,43113,43113,43113,43413,43513,436
 [69]13,26213,269 13,269
Table 21. Same as in Table 10 but for the second radial excitation (3S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 21. Same as in Table 10 but for the second radial excitation (3S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the axialvector diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State3S
S012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our13,55813,56613,580
 [69]13,30113,33513,365
[90] 13 , 200 36 + 35 13 , 202 36 + 35
Table 22. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S) first orbital excitation (1P) and first radial excitation (2S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the mixture of axialvector and scalar diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 22. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S) first orbital excitation (1P) and first radial excitation (2S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the mixture of axialvector and scalar diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ 1 2 A S ¯ ± S A ¯
State1S1P2S
S1
J PC 1 + ± 0 ± 1 ± 2 ± 1 + ±
Our12,86313,09613,09913,10413,257
 [56]12,485 (+);
12,424 (−)
[62]13,599 (+);
13,555 (−)
[65]12,870 (+);
12,852 (−)
[101]12,804 (DA);
12,561, 12,737 (MM);
12,561 (mix) (+)
[69]12,53312,92212,922 (−) 13,036
[74]12,569 (+);
12,510 (−)
[82]12,703 (+);
12,744 (−)
[46,47]12,903 (DA);
12,431, 12,843 (MM);
12,635, 12,768 (K) (+)
[102] 12 , 300 140 + 150 (+);
12 , 320 130 + 150 (−)
[92]12,155 (+);
12,896 (−)
[95]12,857 (+)
[96]12,538 (+);
12,339 (−)
Table 23. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D) first orbital and radial excitation (2P) and second radial excitation (3S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the mixture of axialvector and scalar diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 23. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D) first orbital and radial excitation (2P) and second radial excitation (3S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the mixture of axialvector and scalar diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ 1 2 A S ¯ ± S A ¯
State1D2P3S
S1
J PC 1 + ± 2 + ± 3 + ± 0 ± 1 ± 2 ± 1 + ±
Our13,29313,29813,30513,42613,42613,42713,566
 [69]13,154 13,25013,250 (−) 13,342
Table 24. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S), first orbital excitation (1P), first radial excitation (2S), second orbital excitation (1D), first orbital and radial excitation (2P), second radial excitation (3S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the scalar diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
Table 24. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S), first orbital excitation (1P), first radial excitation (2S), second orbital excitation (1D), first orbital and radial excitation (2P), second radial excitation (3S) of c b c ¯ b ¯ composed from the scalar diquark and antidiquark. Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ S S ¯
State1S1P2S1D2P3S
S0
J PC 0 + + 1 0 + + 2 + + 1 0 + +
Our12,85613,09513,25013,29313,42013,559
 [56]12,359
[62]13,553
[65]12,835
[69]12,52112,91013,02413,14313,23813,330
[74]12,534
[82]12,747
[46,47]12,892 (DA);
12,369, 12,809 (MM);
12,599, 12,717 (K)
[102] 12 , 280 140 + 150
[92]12,359
[96]12,431
Table 25. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
Table 25. Same as in Table 10 but for the ground state (1S) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1S
S 012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our19,31419,32019,330
[56] 18,75418,80818,916
[58] 18 , 826 ± 25
[59] 18 , 840 ± 90 18 , 850 ± 90
[60,61] 18 , 460 ± 140 ,
18 , 490 ± 160
18 , 540 ± 150 18 , 530 ± 150
[103]18,800
[62]20,27520,21220,243
[48] 18 , 720 ± 20 (NR, MM);
18 , 750 ± 50 (Rel, DA);
18 , 890
[38] > 18 , 798 > 18 , 859 > 18 , 921
[65]19,32219,32919,341
[51]19,191, 19,221 (DA);
18,670, 18,928, 19,195, 19,205 (MM);
18,670 (mix)
19,227 (DA);
18,799, 19,179 (MM);
18,799 (mix)
19,238 (DA);
18,928, 19,195 (MM);
18,928 (mix)
[66] 18 , 690 ± 30
[67] 18 , 840 ± 90
[68]19,247 (Id);
19,305 (IId)
19,247 (Id);
19,311 (IId)
19,249 (Id);
19,325 (IId)
[69]18,74818,82818,900
[70] 18 , 826 ± 25 18 , 956 ± 25
[40]19,165, 19,256, 19,344
(DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
19,313, 19,456, 19,466
(DA, ChQM (I-III) d );
18,800∼18,925
(MM, QDCSM (I-III) d );
18,800∼20,041
(MM, ChQM (I-III) d )
19,184, 19,264, 19,354
(DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
19,323, 19,461, 19,467
(DA, ChQM (I-III) d );
18,860∼18,864
(MM, QDCSM (I-III) d );
18,860∼19,927
(MM, ChQM (I-III) d )
19,236, 19,279, 19,374
(DA, QDCSM (I-III) d );
19,344, 19,471
(DA, ChQM (I-III) d );
18,921∼18,925
(MM, QDCSM (I-III) d );
18,921∼19,933
(MM, ChQM (I-III) d )
[71]19,25519,25119,262
[50]19,30619,32919,341
[72]18,723 (Id);
18,754 (IId)
18,738 (Id);
18,768 (IId)
18,768 (Id);
18,797 (IId)
[42,43] 19 , 872 ± 156 (DA, Cur, NLO⊕G3);
19 , 717 ± 118 (DA, Op, NLO⊕G3);
19 , 259 ± 88 , 19 , 430 ± 145 ,
19 , 770 ± 137 , 19 , 653 ± 131 (MM)
[73]17,975, 19,033 (DA);
17,999, 18,038,
19,036, 19,069 (MM);
17,917, 18,010,
19,280 (mix)
18065, 19,093 (DA);
18,062, 19,087 (MM);
18,009, 19,338,
19,627 (mix)
18,241, 19,211 (DA);
18,238, 19,207 (MM);
18,189, 19,451,
19,708 (mix)
[74]19,19919,27619,289
[75]19,22619,21419,232
[45]19,417 (CQM);
18,834 (CMIM);
19,377 (MCFTM)
19,413 (CQM);
18,890 (CMIM);
19,373 (MCFTM)
19,429 (CQM);
18,921 (CMIM);
19,387 (MCFTM)
[104]19,650, 20,110,
21,470 (Id);
22,310, 22,660,
23,720 (IId)
[79]19,205 (Id);
19,187 (IId);
19,209 (IIId)
19,221 (Id);
19,202 (IId);
19,225 (IIId)
19,253 (Id);
19,234 (IId);
19,257 (IIId)
[80]18,572
[81] 18 , 380 ± 110 , 18 , 440 ± 100 ,
18 , 500 ± 100 , 18 , 590 ± 110
-
[82]18,98118,96919,000
[46,47]19,196 (DA);
18,802, 19,144 (MM);
18,977, 19,143 (K)
19,205 (DA);
18,864, 19,126 (MM);
19,053, 19,206 (K)
19,223 (DA);
18,926, 19,197 (MM);
19,093, 19,225 (K)
[105]18,719 (Id);
18,749 (IId)
18,734 (Id);
18,764 (IId)
18,764 (Id);
18,792 (IId)
[87]19,66619,67319,680
[88] 18 , 130 90 + 130 ,
18 , 150 100 + 140
18 , 140 90 + 140 18 , 150 190 + 140
[89]19,429 (Id);
19,428 (IId);
19,302 (IIId)
19,557 (Id);
19,558 (IId);
19,409 (IIId)
19,557 (Id);
19,558 (IId);
19,409 (IIId)
[90] 18,475 169 + 151 18,483 168 + 149
[49]18,444 (Bt);
18,440 (FL);
18,440 (mix)
18,444 (Bt);
18,440 (FL);
18,440 (mix)
18,444 (Bt);
18,440 (FL);
18,440 (mix)
[92]18,75218,80518,920
[44] 18 , 500 260 + 170 , 18 , 510 260 + 170
(DA, LO);
18 , 970 110 + 50
(DA, NLO);
18 , 500 260 + 170 19 , 210 260 + 200
(MM, LO);
18 , 930 160 + 90 19660 100 + 50
(MM, NLO)
18 , 500 250 + 170
(DA, LO);
18 , 970 110 + 60
(DA, NLO);
18 , 500 260 + 170 19 , 210 260 + 200
(MM, LO);
18 , 600 260 + 190 19 , 530 170 + 110
(MM, NLO)
18 , 500 260 + 170
(DA, LO);
18 , 910 180 + 110 , 18 , 950 130 + 70
(DA, NLO);
18 , 500 260 + 170 19 , 210 260 + 200
(MM, LO);
18 , 890 180 + 110 19 , 620 80 + 40
(MM, NLO)
[95]19,24019,30419,328
[96]18,83418,89018,921
Table 26. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital excitation (1P) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
Table 26. Same as in Table 10 but for the first orbital excitation (1P) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1P
S012
J PC 1 0 + 1 + 2 + 1 2 3
Our19,53619,53319,53519,53919,53419,53819,545
 [60,61] 18 , 770 ± 160 18 , 790 ± 180 18 , 830 ± 180
[67] 18 , 890 ± 90
[69]19,28119,288 19,288
[50]19,47919,50019,49619,49219,60319,47619,617
[105]19,381 (Id);
19,361 (IId)
19,340 (Id);
19,327 (IId)
19,380 (Id);
19,361 (IId)
19,395 (Id);
19,373 (IId)
19,338 (Id);
19,325 (IId)
19,390 (Id);
19,369 (IId)
19,412 (Id);
19,388 (IId)
[88] 18 , 460 110 + 150 18 , 450 110 + 150 ,
18 , 540 120 + 160
18 , 560 110 + 160 ,
18 , 790 130 + 180
[44] 18 , 860 260 + 190
(DA, LO);
19 , 180 200 + 130
(DA, NLO);
18 , 850 260 + 200
18 , 870 260 + 190
(MM, LO);
19 , 220 110 + 50
19 , 310 90 + 40
(MM, NLO)
18 , 860 240 + 190
(DA, LO);
19 , 230 140 + 80
(DA, NLO);
18 , 850 260 + 190
18 , 860 260 + 190
(MM, LO);
19 , 180 180 + 110
19 , 310 90 + 40
(MM, NLO)
18 , 860 260 + 190
(DA, LO);
19 , 230 130 + 70
(DA, NLO);
18 , 850 260 + 200
18 , 870 260 + 190
(MM, LO);
19 , 220 110 + 50
19 , 310 90 + 40
(MM, NLO)
Table 27. Same as in Table 10 but for the first radial excitation (2S) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
Table 27. Same as in Table 10 but for the first radial excitation (2S) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State2S
S012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our19,68019,68219,687
 [68] 19,594 (Id);
19,813 (IId)
19,596 (Id);
19,823 (IId)
[69]19,33519,36619,398
[70] 19 , 434 ± 25 19 , 481 ± 25
[71]19,62519,62519,633
[75]19,58319,58219,594
[79]19,636 (Id);
19,544 (IId);
19,646 (IIId)
19,662 (Id);
19565 (IId);
19,671 (IIId)
19,684 (Id);
19,591 (IId);
19,694 (IIId)
[105]19,441 (Id);
19,414 (IId)
19,443 (Id);
19,416 (IId)
19,448 (Id);
19,421 (IId)
[87]19,84119,84919,855
[89]19,512 (Id);
19,515 (IId);
19,591 (IIId)
19,587 (Id);
19,597 (IId);
19,728 (IIId)
19,587 (Id);
19,597 (IId);
19,728 (IIId)
[90] 19 , 073 63 + 59 19 , 075 62 + 59
[100]19,71919,72219,726
Table 28. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
Table 28. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital excitation (1D) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State1D
S012
J PC 2 + + 1 + 2 + 3 + 0 + + 1 + + 2 + + 3 + + 4 + +
Our19,71519,71019,71419,72019,70519,70719,71119,71719,724
 [60,61] 18 , 320 ± 180
[69]19,51019,511 19,51319,51219,510
[100]19,66919,67119,67219,67519,67719,67819,68019,68419,686
[44] 19 , 200 260 + 200
(DA, LO);
18 , 850 260 + 190
(DA, NLO);
18 , 500 260 + 170
19 , 210 260 + 200
(MM, LO);
18 , 600 260 + 190
19 , 530 170 + 110
(MM, NLO)
Table 29. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital and radial excitation (2P) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
Table 29. Same as in Table 10 but for the second orbital and radial excitation (2P) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State2P
S012
J PC 1 0 + 1 + 2 + 1 2 3
Our19,82019,82119,82119,82219,82319,82319,824
 [69]19,59719,602 19,602
Table 30. Same as in Table 10 but for the third radial excitation (3S) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
Table 30. Same as in Table 10 but for the third radial excitation (3S) of the b b b ¯ b ¯ . Our results are given in bold.
d d ¯ A A ¯
State3S
S012
J PC 0 + + 1 + 2 + +
Our19,94119,94319,947
 [68] 19,681 (Id);
20,065 (IId)
19,682 (Id);
20,077 (IID)
[69]19,64419,66519,688
[71]19,72619,73319,736
[75]19,88719,88919,898
[79]19,907 (Id);
19,795 (IId);
19,913 (IIId)
19,930 (Id);
19,815(IId);
19,936 (IIId)
19,926 (Id);
19,822 (IId);
19,930 (IIId)
[105]19,759 (Id);
19,701 (IId)
19,760 (Id);
19,703 (IId)
19,764 (Id);
19,706 (IId)
[87]20,00120,01220,021
[89]19,557 (Id);
19,565 (IId);
19,845 (IIId)
19,597 (Id);
19,615 (IId);
20,016 (IIId)
19,597 (Id);
19,615 (IId);
20,016 (IIId)
[90] 19 , 353 42 + 42 19 , 355 43 + 41
[100]19,97919,98019,982
We compare our predictions with the results obtained in the following approaches and models:
Among them, the following configurations can be distinguished:
It is seen from Table 10, Table 11, Table 12, Table 13, Table 14, Table 15, Table 16, Table 17, Table 18, Table 19, Table 20, Table 21, Table 22, Table 23, Table 24, Table 25, Table 26, Table 27, Table 28, Table 29 and Table 30 that our results agree well (within the ± 50 MeV range) with the following results:
  • For the c c c ¯ c ¯ tetraquark:
    -
    In the diquark–antidiquark picture: [48,58,72,77,80] (all predictions); [70,89,93] (ground states only); [50,60,61,69] (1P); [68] (2S); [85,100] (3S); [40] (1S, 3S); [79] (2S, 3S); [44] (1P, 1D).
    -
    In the other models: [40,42,43,44,46,47,52,77] (all predictions); [39,88] (ground states only); [86] (2P); [75] (3S).
  • For the c b c ¯ b ¯ tetraquark:
    -
    In the diquark–antidiquark picture: A A ¯ , 1 2 ( A S ¯ ± S A ¯ ) , S S ¯ 46,47,65,95] (all predictions).
    -
    In other models: A A ¯ 46,47,81] (all predictions); 1 2 ( A S ¯ ± S A ¯ ) , S S ¯ 46,47] (all predictions).
  • For the b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquark:
    -
    In the diquark–antidiquark picture: [40,45,50,65,74,95,100] (all predictions); [68] (ground states only); [71] (2S); [79] (2S, 3S).
    -
    In other models: [40,42,43,73] (all predictions); [44] (ground states only); [75] (3S).
A number of other conclusions can be drawn from this data:
  • Predictions of Refs. [46,47] are in full agreement with our results for the c b c ¯ b ¯ tetraquark;
  • Predictions of Refs. [65,95] give good agreement for the c b c ¯ b ¯ and b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks, but do not agree at all for the c c c ¯ c ¯ tetraquark;
  • Predictions of Refs. [40,50,68,79,100] give partial agreement for the c c c ¯ c ¯ and b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks in the diquark–antidiquark picture;
  • Predictions of Refs. [40,42,43,44,75] give partial agreement for the c c c ¯ c ¯ and b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks in models other than diquark–antidiquark.
In addition, throughout comparison of our results with those of other scientific groups, the following is shown:
  • For the c c c ¯ c ¯ tetraquark, our results are generally median: there are many results giving both heavier and lighter masses;
  • For the c b c ¯ b ¯ tetraquark masses, our results exceed those of other scientific groups for all diquark spins and excitations;
  • For the b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquark masses, our results are slightly higher than those of most other scientific groups.
The generally higher values of tetraquark masses predicted in our model originate primarily from taking into account the finite size of the diquark. It results in the weakening of the one-gluon exchange potential and, thus, increasing the tetraquark mass.
Note that the authors of Ref. [62] came to unexpected conclusions. They argue that the ground state of the asymmetric tetraquark b b c ¯ b ¯ may be stable (its ground states were studied by us in Refs. [14,15] and were found to be significantly above the fall-apart decay thresholds), and they also expect the c b c ¯ b ¯ tetraquark to be a narrow state in contradiction with our conclusions.

7. Conclusions

Within the framework of the relativistic quark model, we calculated masses of the ground states, radial (up to 3S) and orbital (up to 1D) excitations of the fully charmed c c c ¯ c ¯ , doubly charmed-bottom c b c ¯ b ¯ and fully bottom b b b ¯ b ¯ tetraquarks. An important feature of our calculations is the consistent account of the relativistic effects and the finite size of the diquark (as it is shown in the Section 3), which leads to the weakening of the one-gluon exchange potential due to the form factors of the diquark–gluon interaction.
A detailed analysis of the calculated mass spectra was carried out. We compared calculated tetraquark masses with the thresholds of the strong fall-apart decays into the meson pairs. As shown in Section 5, most of the tetraquark states lie significantly above the meson pair decay threshold. However, tetraquark states with the smallest widths and, as a result, with the most probability to be observed as narrow states, were identified. An argument is given as to why the excited states in general can be narrow, despite the large phase space.
It should be noted that the mass of the narrow state X(6900) recently discovered in the di- J / ψ pair production (LHCb 2020 [5], CMS 2022 [6], ATLAS 2022 [7]) agrees well with our prediction for the masses of the fully charmed tetraquark excited (2S, 1D) states. According to the calculations, several candidates for the interpretation of this state are proposed. Candidates are also identified for all other recently discovered states, such as X(6200) (ATLAS), X(6400) (LHCb), X(6600) (CMS, ATLAS), X(7200) (LHCb, ATLAS), X(7300) (CMS).
In conclusion, we note that experimental searches for fully heavy tetraquarks are currently ongoing and should be continued. Therefore, it can be expected that new experimental candidates will appear in the near future.

Author Contributions

Authors contributed equally to the preparation of the manuscript. Investigation, V.O.G. and E.M.S.; Writing—original draft, V.O.G. and E.M.S.; Writing—review and editing, R.N.F., V.O.G. and E.M.S. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

Funding

The work of Elena M. Savchenko was funded in part by the Foundation for the Advancement of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics “BASIS” grant number 22-2-10-3-1.

Data Availability Statement

Not applicable.

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to D. Ebert for very fruitful and pleasant collaboration in developing the diquark–antidiquark model of tetraquarks. We are grateful to A.V. Berezhnoy for useful discussions.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Figure 1. Feynman diagram of the gluon emission by a quark in a diquark.
Figure 1. Feynman diagram of the gluon emission by a quark in a diquark.
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Figure 2. Form factors F ( r ) for the various doubly heavy diquarks. { Q , Q } denotes axialvector and [ Q , Q ] denotes scalar diquarks, respectively.
Figure 2. Form factors F ( r ) for the various doubly heavy diquarks. { Q , Q } denotes axialvector and [ Q , Q ] denotes scalar diquarks, respectively.
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Table 1. Parameters of the model [25,29,30,31].
Table 1. Parameters of the model [25,29,30,31].
m c , GeV m b , GeVA, GeV 2 B, GeV Λ , MeV ε κ
1.554.880.18−0.3414−1−1
Table 2. Masses M Q Q and form factor parameters ξ , ζ of diquarks. d is the axialvector (A) or scalar (S) diquark. [ Q , Q ] and { Q , Q } denote combinations of quarks antisymmetric and symmetric in flavor, respectively [21,26].
Table 2. Masses M Q Q and form factor parameters ξ , ζ of diquarks. d is the axialvector (A) or scalar (S) diquark. [ Q , Q ] and { Q , Q } denote combinations of quarks antisymmetric and symmetric in flavor, respectively [21,26].
QQ d Q = c Q = b
M cQ , MeV ξ , GeV ζ , GeV 2 M bQ , MeV ξ , GeV ζ , GeV 2
[ Q , c ] S 65191.500.59
{ Q , c } A32261.300.4265261.500.59
{ Q , b } A65261.500.5997781.301.60
Table 9. Exotic X states observed by the LHCb [5], CMS [6] and ATLAS [7] Collaborations in di- J / ψ invariant mass spectra and our candidates. All masses are given in MeV.
Table 9. Exotic X states observed by the LHCb [5], CMS [6] and ATLAS [7] Collaborations in di- J / ψ invariant mass spectra and our candidates. All masses are given in MeV.
CollaborationStateMassWidthOur Candidates
StateS J PC Mass
ATLASX(6200) 6220 ± 50 50 + 40 310 ± 120 80 + 70 1S0 0 + + 6190
LHCbX(6400)≈ 6400 1S2 2 + + 6367
CMSX(6600) 6552 ± 10 ± 12 124 ± 29 ± 34 1S
2S
2
0
2 + +
0 + +
6367
6782
ATLAS 6620 ± 30 10 + 20 310 ± 90 110 + 60
LHCbX(6900) 6905 ± 11 ± 7 80 ± 19 ± 33 2S
1D
1D
1D
1D
2
0
2
2
2
2 + +
2 + +
0 + +
1 + +
2 + +
6868
6921
6899
6904
6915
6886 ± 11 ± 11 168 ± 33 ± 69
CMS 6927 ± 9 ± 5 122 ± 22 ± 19
ATLAS 6870 ± 30 10 + 60 120 ± 40 10 + 30
LHCbX(7200)≈ 7200 3S0 0 + + 7259
ATLAS 7220 ± 30 30 + 20 100 70 50 + 130 + 60
CMSX(7300) 7287 ± 19 ± 5 95 ± 46 ± 20 3S
3S
0
2
0 + +
2 + +
7259
7333
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