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Analysis of bound and resonant states of doubly heavy tetraquarks with spin $J \leq 2$

Manato Sakai ^*

Yasuhiro Yamaguchi ^†

Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan

Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan and Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan

^*Contact author: msakai@hken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp
^†Contact author: yamaguchi@hken.phys.nagoya-u.ac.jp

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 034038 – Published 29 August, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/jx4b-f1by

Abstract

Recently, a number of exotic hadrons have been reported in the experiments, and most of these states lie slightly below the threshold. Therefore, these states are considered to be hadronic molecules composed of mesons or baryons. In 2022, the doubly charmed tetraquark $T_{c c}$ was reported by the LHCb experiment, which is considered to be composed of two heavy quarks and two light antiquarks, and located slightly below the $D D^{*}$ threshold. The observation motivates us to study the bound and resonant states of the doubly heavy tetraquarks as two meson systems. We employ the one boson exchange potential as an interaction between two mesons, where one free parameter has been determined to reproduce $T_{c c}$ reported by the LHCb experiment. In our previous work, bound states of $D^{(*)} D^{(*)}$ and $B^{(*)} B^{(*)}$ molecules were studied, where we respected the heavy quark spin symmetry (HQS). Using the same framework, we study not only bound but also resonant states with $J \leq 2$ in this paper. Furthermore, we discuss the HQS partner structures of $T_{c c}$ and $T_{b b}$ obtained in our study by introducing the light cloud basis.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 034038– Published 29 August, 2025

Vol. 112, Iss. 3 — 1 August 2025

Received 21 March 2025
Accepted 25 July 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/jx4b-f1by

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Analysis of bound and resonant states of doubly heavy tetraquarks with spin $J \leq 2$