%0 Journal Article
%T String dynamics and metastability of all-heavy tetraquarks
%A Richard, J. M.
%A Valcarce, A.
%A Vijande, J.
%J Physical Review D
%D 2017
%V 95
%N 5
%I Amer Physical Soc
%@ 2470-0010
%G English
%F Richard_etal2017
%O WOS:000399144700001
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3047), last updated on Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:35:23 +0000
%X Multiquark states have been advocated to explain recent experimental data in the heavy-light sector, and there are already speculations about multiquarks containing only heavy quarks and antiquarks. With a rigorous treatment of the four-body problem in current quark models, full-charm (cc (c) over bar(c) over bar) and full-beauty(bb (b) over bar(b) over bar) tetraquarks are found to be unbound. Thus their stability should rely on more subtle effects that are not included in the simple picture of constituent quarks. The case of (bc (b) over bar(c) over bar) might be more favorable if the naive color-additive model of confinement is replaced by a string-inspired interaction.
%R 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.054019
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00783
%U https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.054019
%P 054019-7pp