TY - JOUR AU - Richard, J. M. AU - Valcarce, A. AU - Vijande, J. PY - 2017 DA - 2017// TI - String dynamics and metastability of all-heavy tetraquarks T2 - Phys. Rev. D JO - Physical Review D SP - 054019 EP - 7pp VL - 95 IS - 5 PB - Amer Physical Soc AB - 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. SN - 2470-0010 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00783 UR - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.054019 DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.054019 LA - English N1 - WOS:000399144700001 ID - Richard_etal2017 ER -