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In this research, we tentatively assign the $T_{c\bar{s}}(2900)$ as the $A\bar{A}$-type tetraquark state, and study the mass spectrum of the tetraquark states with strange and doubly strange, which have the spin-parity $J^P = 0^+$, $1^+$ and $2^+$, in the framework of the QCD sum rules in details, where the $A$ denotes the axialvector diquark state. The predicted mass $M=2.92\pm0.12\,\rm{GeV}$ is in consistent with the experimental values $M=2.892\pm0.014\pm0.015\,\rm{GeV}$ and $2.921\pm0.017\pm0.020\,\rm{GeV}$ from the LHCb collaboration and supports assigning the $T_{c\bar{s}}(2900)$ to be the $A\bar{A}$-type scalar $c\bar{s}q\bar{q}$ tetraquark state. The predictions for other tetraquark states can be confronted to the experimental data in the future to diagnose the nature of the fully open flavor exotic states., Comment: 20 pages, 7 figures

We tentatively assign the $Y(4230)$ as the vector tetraquark state with a relative P-wave between the scalar diquark pair, and explore the three-body strong decays $Y(4230) \to \bar{D}^{*-}D^{*0}\pi^+$, $\bar{D}^{*-}D^0\pi^+$, $J/\psi\pi^+\pi^- $ and $ J/\psi K^+K^-$ with the light-cone QCD sum rules by assuming contact four-meson coupling constants. The resulting partial decay widths are too small to account for the experimental data, and we expect those decays take place through an intermediate meson. We can search for the intermediate states and precisely measure the branching fractions to diagnose the nature of the $Y$ states., Comment: 12 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2304.14153

In this article, the strong coupling constants of vertices $BB\Upsilon$, $BB^{*}\Upsilon$, $B^{*}B^{*}\Upsilon$, $BB^{*}\eta_{b}$ and $B^{*}B^{*}\eta_{b}$ are analyzed in the framework of QCD sum rules. In this work, all possible off-shell cases and the contributions of vacuum condensate terms including $\langle\overline{q}q\rangle$, $\langle\overline{q}g_{s}\sigma Gq\rangle$, $\langle g_{s}^{2}G^{2}\rangle$, $\langle f^{3}G^{3}\rangle$ and $\langle\overline{q}q\rangle\langle g_{s}^{2}G^{2}\rangle$ are considered. The momentum dependent strong coupling constants are first calculated and then are fitted into analytical functions $g(Q^{2})$ which are used to extrapolate into time-like regions to obtain the final values of strong coupling constants. The final results are $g_{BB\Upsilon}=40.67^{+7.55}_{-4.20}$, $g_{BB^{*}\Upsilon}=11.58^{+2.19}_{-1.09}$ GeV$^{-1}$, $g_{B^{*}B^{*}\Upsilon}=57.02^{+5.32}_{-5.31}$, $g_{BB^{*}\eta_{b}}=23.39^{+4.74}_{-2.30}$ and $g_{B^{*}B^{*}\eta_{b}}=12.49^{+2.12}_{-1.35}$ GeV$^{-1}$. These strong coupling constants are important input parameters which reflect the dynamic properties of the interactions among the mesons and quarkonia., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2304.13969

In this work, we systematically investigate the singly-charmed pentaquark molecular states $D^{(*)}N$, $D^{(*)}\Xi^{(*)}$ and $D_s^{(*)}\Xi^{(*)}$ with the QCD sum rules by carrying out the operator product expansion up to the vacuum condensates of dimension 13 and taking fully account of the light-flavor $SU(3)$ breaking effects. The numerical results favor assigning the $\Omega_c(3185)$ as the $D\Xi$ molecular state with the $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$ and $| I,I_3 \rangle=| 0,0 \rangle$, assigning the $\Omega_c(3327)$ as the $D^*\Xi$ molecular state with the $J^P=\frac{3}{2}^-$ and $|I,I_3 \rangle=| 0,0 \rangle$, assigning the $\Sigma_c(2800)$ as the $DN$ molecular state with the $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$ and $| I,I_3 \rangle=| 1,0 \rangle$, and assigning the $\Lambda_c(2940)/\Lambda_c(2910)$ as the $D^*N$ molecular state with the $J^P=\frac{3}{2}^-$ and $| I,I_3 \rangle=| 0,0 \rangle$. Other potential molecule candidates are also predicted, which may be observed in future experiments. For example, we can search for the $D\Xi$ and $D^*\Xi$ molecular states with the isospin $| I,I_3 \rangle=| 1,\pm1 \,\rangle$ in the $\Xi_c^+\bar{K}^0$ and $\Xi_c^0\bar{K}^-$ mass spectrum respectively in the future, which could shed light on the nature of the $\Omega_c(3185/3327)$., Comment: 23 pages, 6 figures

In this work, we analyze the strong vertices $\Sigma_{c}\Delta D^{*}$ and $\Sigma_{b}\Delta B^{*}$ using the three-point QCD sum rules under the tensor structures $i\epsilon^{\rho\tau\alpha\beta}p_{\alpha}p_{\beta}$, $p^{\rho}p'^{\tau}$ and $p^{\rho}p^{\tau}$. We firstly calculate the momentum dependent strong coupling constants $g(Q^{2})$ by considering contributions of the perturbative part and the condensate terms $\langle\overline{q}q\rangle$, $\langle g_{s}^{2}GG \rangle$, $\langle\overline{q}g_{s}\sigma Gq\rangle$ and $\langle\overline{q}q\rangle^{2}$. By fitting these coupling constants into analytical functions and extrapolating them into time-like regions, we then obtain the on-shell values of strong coupling constants for these vertices. The results are $g_{1\Sigma_{c}\Delta D^{*}}=5.13^{+0.39}_{-0.49}$ GeV$^{-1}$, $g_{2\Sigma_{c}\Delta D^{*}}=-3.03^{+0.27}_{-0.35}$ GeV$^{-2}$, $g_{3\Sigma_{c}\Delta D^{*}}=17.64^{+1.51}_{-1.95}$ GeV$^{-2}$, $g_{1\Sigma_{b}\Delta B^{*}}=20.97^{+2.15}_{-2.39}$ GeV$^{-1}$, $g_{2\Sigma_{b}\Delta B^{*}}=-11.42^{+1.17}_{-1.28}$ GeV$^{-2}$ and $g_{3\Sigma_{b}\Delta B^{*}}=24.87^{+2.57}_{-2.82}$ GeV$^{-2}$. These strong coupling constants are important parameters which can help us to understand the strong decay behaviors of hadrons.

In the present work, considering the conservation of isospin in the strong decays, we investigate the strong decays of the pentaquark molecule candidate $P_c(4312)$ and its possible higher isospin cousin $P_c(4330)$ in the framework of the QCD sum rules. What's more, the pole residue of the $\Delta$ baryon with isospin eigenstate $|II_3\rangle=|\frac{3}{2}\frac{1}{2}\rangle$ is obtained. If the possible pentaquark molecule candidate $P_c(4330)$ could be testified in the future experiment, it would shed light on interpretations of the $P_c$ states., Comment: 14 pages, 21 figures

In this work, we tentatively assign the $Y(4500)$ as the $[uc]_{\tilde{A}}[\overline{uc}]_{V}+[uc]_{V}[\overline{uc}]_{\tilde{A}}+[dc]_{\tilde{A}}[\overline{dc}]_{V} +[dc]_{V}[\overline{dc}]_{\tilde{A}}$ tetraquark state with the quantum numbers $J^{PC}=1^{--}$, and study the three-body strong decay $Y(4500)\to D^{*-}D^{*0}\pi^+$ with the light-cone QCD sum rules. It is the first time to use the light-cone QCD sum rules to calculate the four-hadron coupling constants, the approach can be extended to study other three-body strong decays directly and diagnose the $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ states., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figure

Our study focuses on the $\Lambda$-type P-wave bottom baryon states with the spin-parity $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$, $\frac{3}{2}^-$. We introduce an explicit P-wave between the two light quarks in the interpolating currents (and the two light quarks are antisymmetric in flavor space, therefore leads to the name $\Lambda$-type baryon) to investigate the $\Lambda_b$ and $\Xi_b$ states within the framework of the full QCD sum rules. The predicted masses show that the $\Xi_b(6087)$ and $\Xi_b(6095/6100)$ could to be the P-wave bottom-strange baryon states with the spin-parity $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$ and $\frac{3}{2}^-$, respectively, meanwhile, the $\Lambda_b(5912)$ and $\Lambda_b(5920)$ could be the P-wave bottom baryon states with the spin-parity $J^P=\frac{1}{2}^-$ and $\frac{3}{2}^-$, respectively. The $\Lambda_b(5920)$ and $\Xi_b(6095/6100)$ maybe have two remarkable under-structures or Fock components at least., Comment: 19 pages, 12 figures, revised version

In this work, the strong form factors and coupling constants of the vertices $DDJ/\psi$, $DD^{*}J/\psi$, $D^{*}D^{*}J/\psi$, $DD^{*}\eta_{c}$, $D^{*}D^{*}\eta_{c}$ are calculated within the framework of the QCD sum rule. For each vertex, we analyze the form factor considering all possible off-shell cases and the contributions of the vacuum condensate terms $\langle\overline{q}q\rangle$, $\langle\overline{q}g_{s}\sigma Gq\rangle$, $\langle g_{s}^{2}G^{2}\rangle$, $\langle f^{3}G^{3}\rangle$ and $\langle\overline{q}q\rangle\langle g_{s}^{2}G^{2}\rangle$. Then, the form factors are fitted into analytical functions $g(Q^2)$ and are extrapolated into time-like regions to get the strong coupling constants. Finally, the strong coupling constants are obtained by using on-shell cases of the intermediate mesons($Q^2=-m^2$). The results are as follows, $g_{DDJ/\psi}=5.01^{+0.58}_{-0.16}$, $g_{DD^{*}J/\psi}=3.55^{+0.20}_{-0.21}$GeV$^{-1}$, $g_{D^{*}D^{*}J/\psi}=5.10^{+0.59}_{-0.43}$, $g_{DD^{*}\eta_{c}}=3.68^{+0.39}_{-0.11}$ and $g_{D^{*}D^{*}\eta_{c}}=4.87^{+0.42}_{-0.40}$GeV$^{-1}$.

Motivated by recent progresses in experiments in searching for the $\Omega_{c}$ baryons, we systematically analyze the strong decay behaviors of single heavy baryons $\Lambda_{Q}$, $\Sigma_{Q}$ and $\Omega_{Q}$. The two-body strong decay properties of $S$-wave, $P$-wave and some $D$-wave states are studied with the $^{3}P_{0}$ model. The results support assigning the recently observed $\Omega_{c}(3185)$ and $\Omega_{c}(3327)$ as the 2S($\frac{3}{2}^{+}$) and 1D($\frac{3}{2}^{+}$) states, respectively. In addition, the quantum numbers of many other experimentally observed baryons are also suggested according to their strong decays. Finally, some baryons which have good potentials to be observed in experiments are predicted and the possible decay channels for searching for these predicted states are also suggested., Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2206.08128

We construct the $\Sigma$-type currents to investigate the D-wave charmed baryon states with the QCD sum rules systematically. The predicted masses $M=3.35^{+0.13}_{-0.18}\,\rm{GeV}$ ($3.33^{+0.13}_{-0.16}\,\rm{GeV}$), $3.34^{+0.14}_{-0.18}\,\rm{GeV}$ ($3.35^{+0.13}_{-0.16}\,\rm{GeV}$) and $3.35^{+0.12}_{-0.13}\,\rm{GeV}$ ($3.35^{+0.12}_{-0.14}\,\rm{GeV}$) for the $\Omega_c(0,2,{\frac{1}{2}}^+)$, $\Omega_c(0,2,{\frac{3}{2}}^+)$ and $\Omega_c(0,2,{\frac{5}{2}}^+)$ states are in excellent agreement with the experimental data $ 3327.1\pm1.2 \mbox{ MeV}$ from the LHCb collaboration, and support assigning the $\Omega_c(3327)$ to be the $\Sigma$-type D-wave $\Omega_c$ state with the spin-parity $J^P={\frac{1}{2}}^+$, ${\frac{3}{2}}^+$ or ${\frac{5}{2}}^+$., Comment: 26 pages, 13 figures

In this work, we tentatively assign the $P_{cs}(4338)$ to be the $\bar{D}\,\Xi_c$ pentaquark molecular state, and distinguish the isospins of the interpolating currents to study the $\bar{D}\,\Xi_c$, $\bar{D}\,\Lambda_c$, $\bar{D}_s\,\Xi_c$ and $\bar{D}_s\,\Lambda_c$ pentaquark molecular states without strange, with strange or with double strange via the QCD sum rules in details. The present calculations support assigning the $P_{cs}(4338)$ to be the $\bar{D}\Xi_c$ pentaquark molecular state with the spin-parity $J^P={\frac{1}{2}}^-$ and isospin $(I,I_3)=(0,0)$, the observation of its cousin with the isospin $(I,I_3)=(1,0)$ in the $J/\psi\Sigma^0/\eta_c\Sigma^0$ mass-spectrum would shed light on the nature of the $P_{cs}(4338)$., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2103.08239

Motivated by the analogous properties of the $Z_c(3900/3885)$ and $Z_{cs}(3985/4000)$, we tentatively assign the $Z_c(4020/4025)$ as the $A\bar{A}$-type hidden-charm tetraquark state with the $J^{PC}=1^{+-}$, where the $A$ denotes the axialvector diquark states, and explore the $A\bar{A}$-type tetraquark states without strange, with strange and with hidden-strange via the QCD sum rules in a consistent way. Then we explore the hadronic coupling constants in the two-body strong decays of the tetraquark states without strange and with strange via the QCD sum rules based on rigorous quark-hadron duality, and acquire the partial decay widths and total decay widths. The present calculations support assigning the $Z_c(4020/4025)$ to be the $A\bar{A}$-type tetraquark state with the $J^{PC}=1^{+-}$, while the predictions for its strange cousin $Z_{cs}$ state can be confronted to the experimental data in the future., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures

Basing on the Godfrey-Isgur (GI) quark model, we investigate the mass spectra of strange single heavy baryons systematically. In the calculations of Hamiltonian matrix elements, the Infinitesimally-shifted Gaussian(ISG) basis functions are employed. Our results show that $\lambda$-modes appear lower in energy than other excited modes for a defined state $nL(J^{P})$. Considering this feature, we perform a systematic study of the mass spectra of $\Xi_{c}$ ($\Xi_{c}^{'}$) and $\Xi_{b}$ ($\Xi_{b}^{'}$) families. It is shown that the experimental data can be well reproduced by the predicted masses. In addition, the mass spectra help us successfully to construct the Regge trajectories in the $(J,M^{2})$ plane. For the excited states up to $n=2$ and $L=2$, we also calculate their strong decay widths by the $^{3}P_{0}$ model. Basing on the calculated mass spectra and the corresponding strong decay behaviors, we analyze the recently observed baryons in experiments, including $\Xi_{c}(3055)$, $\Xi_{c}(3080)$, $\Xi_{c}(2930)$, $\Xi_{c}(2923)$, $\Xi_{c}(2939)$, $\Xi_{c}(2965)$, $\Xi_{c}(2970)$, $\Xi_{c}(3123)$, $\Xi_{b}(6100)$, $\Xi_{b}(6227)$, $\Xi_{b}(6327)$ and $\Xi_{b}(6333)$. At last the shell structures of the strange single heavy baryons spectra are shown, from which one could get a bird's-eye view of the mass spectra. Accordingly we predict several new baryons that have potentials to be observed in forthcoming experiments., Comment: 45 pages, 9 figures

In this work, we re-investigate the mass spectrum of the ground state, first, second and third radial excited states of the diquark-antidiquark type fully-charm tetraquark states with the QCD sum rules plus Regge trajectories by taking account of the CMS and ATLAS experimental data and preforming a self-consistent analysis, and try to make possible assignments of the $X(6600)$, $X(6900)$ and $X(7300)$., Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures

Motivated by great progresses in experiments in searching for the heavy baryons, we systematically analyze the mass spectra and the strong decay behaviors of single heavy baryons $\Lambda_{Q}$, $\Sigma_{Q}$ and $\Omega_{Q}$. The calculations of the mass spectra are carried out in the frame work of Godfrey-Isgur (GI) relativized quark model, where the baryon is regarded as a three-body system of quarks. Our results show that the mass of single heavy baryon with $\lambda$-mode is lower than those of the $\rho$-mode and $\lambda$-$\rho$ mixing mode, which indicates that the lowest state is dominated by the $\lambda$-mode. Basing on this research, we systematically calculate the mass spectra of the baryons with $\lambda$ excited mode. With these predicated mass spectra, the Regge trajectories in the ($J$,$M^{2}$) plane are constructed, and the slopes, intercepts of the Regge trajectories are obtained by linear fitting. It is found that all available experimental data are well reproduced by model predictions and fit nicely to the constructed Regge trajectories. In order to make a further confirmation about the assignments of the observed baryons, and to provide more valuable infirmations for searching for the model predicted states, we perform a systematic study on the strong decay behaviors of $S$-wave, $P$-wave and some $D$-wave baryons in the $^{3}P_{0}$ model.

In this work, we explore the hadronic coupling constants $G_{ZJ/\psi K}$, $G_{Z\eta_c K^*}$, $G_{ZD^* \bar{D}_s}$ of the exotic states $Z_{cs}(3985/4000)$ both in the pictures of the tetraquark states and molecular states with the tentative assignments $J^{PC}=1^{+-}$ based on the rigorous quark-hadron duality. Then we obtain the total widths $\Gamma_{Z_{cs}}^T =15.31\pm 2.06\,\rm{MeV}$ and $\Gamma_{Z_{cs}}^M=83.51\pm21.09\,\rm{MeV}$, which are consistent with the experimental data $13.8^{+8.1}_{-5.2}\pm4.9\,\rm{MeV}$ from the BESIII collaboration and $131 \pm 15 \pm 26\,\rm{MeV}$ from the LHCb collaboration, respectively, and support assigning the $Z_{cs}(3985)$ and $Z_{cs}(4000)$ to be the hidden-charm tetraquark state and molecular state with the $J^{PC}=1^{+-}$, respectively., Comment: 13 pages, 2 figures

In the present work, we construct eight color singlet-singlet type five-quark currents with strangeness to study the pentaquark states of $\bar{D}\Xi^{\prime}$, $\bar{D}\Xi_c^{*}$, $\bar{D}^{*}\Xi_c^{\prime}$ and $\bar{D}^{*}\Xi_c^{*}$ via the QCD sum rules. The considered states are isospin eigenstates with isospin quantum number $I=1$ or $I=0$. Numerical results show that the central value of the masses extracted from the Borel platforms with high isospin are slightly above the thresholds of the meson and baryon constituents and the low isospin ones are a few dozens of $\rm{MeV}$ below, what's more, the present study supports the assignment of $P_{cs}(4459)$ as $\bar{D}\Xi_c^{*}$ molecular state with the $IJ^P=0(\frac{3}{2})^-$. Technically, besides the analyses of the uncertainties of the masses and pole residues, detailed discussion about the contribution of vacuum condensates proportional to the mass of $s$ quark are conducted which may present a reference for the technical application of QCD sum rules in the future work.

In Phys. Rev. {\bf D103} (2021) 074015 (arXiv:2101.07281), huge (or largest) mass gaps between the ground states and first radial excited states for the tetraquark molecular states are obtained, $\Delta=1.70\sim 2.35\,\rm{GeV}$. We explore the problems in the operator product expansion, Borel windows, etc, in details., Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures

In this work, we explore the ground state mass spectrum of the bottom-charm baryon states in the framework of the QCD sum rules in a comprehensive way. In calculations, we distinguish the contributions of the positive-parity and negative-parity baryon states unambiguously, and investigate the energy scale dependence of the QCD sum rules in details and observe that the acceptable energy scales are $\mu=2.0\sim 2.8\,\rm{GeV}$, while the best energy scale is $\mu=2.0\,\rm{GeV}$. The predictions can be confronted to the experimental data in the future and shed light on the QCD low energy dynamics., Comment: 13 pages, 9 figures

We construct the diquark-diquark-diquark type vector six-quark currents to investigate the vector and scalar hexaquark states in the framework of the QCD sum rules in a consistent way, and make predictions for the hexaquark masses. We can search for the fully-heavy hexaquark states in the di-$ \Omega_{ccc}$ and di-$ \Omega_{bbb}$ invariant mass spectra in the future. Combined with our previous works on the fully-heavy tetraquark states and pentaquark states, the present predictions can shed light on the nature of the fully-heavy multiquark states., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures

In this article, we construct the color singlet-singlet type five-quark currents with the isospins $(I,I_3)=(\frac{1}{2},\frac{1}{2})$ and $(\frac{3}{2},\frac{1}{2})$ unambiguously to explore the $\bar{D}\Sigma_c$, $\bar{D}\Sigma_c^*$, $\bar{D}^*\Sigma_c$ and $\bar{D}^*\Sigma_c^*$ pentaquark states via the QCD sum rules for the first time, where the $\bar{D}$, $\Sigma_c$, $\cdots$ represent the color-singlet clusters having the same quantum numbers as the corresponding physical mesons or baryons. The numerical results support assigning the $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4380)$, $P_c(4440)$ and $P_c(4457)$ as the $\bar{D}\Sigma_c$, $\bar{D}\Sigma_c^*$, $\bar{D}^*\Sigma_c$ and $\bar{D}^*\Sigma_c^*$ pentaquark states with the isospin $I=\frac{1}{2}$, respectively. The corresponding $\bar{D}\Sigma_c$, $\bar{D}\Sigma_c^*$, $\bar{D}^*\Sigma_c$ and $\bar{D}^*\Sigma_c^*$ pentaquark states with the isospin $I=\frac{3}{2}$ have slightly larger masses, the observations of the higher pentaquark candidates in the $J/\psi \Delta$ invariant mass spectrum would shed light on the nature of the $P_c$ states, and make contributions in distinguishing the scenarios of color antitriplet-antitriplet-antitriplet type and color singlet-singlet type pentaquark states.

Stimulated by the recent experimental progress on the $T_{\psi\psi}$ states, the fully charmed tetraquark spectroscopy is systemically investigated by dint of the Godfrey-Isgur relativized diquark model, the modified Godfrey-Isgur relativized diquark model with the color screening effects, and the nonrelativistic diquark model. The theoretical results of the diquark-antidiquark scenarios propose to interpret the $T_{\psi\psi}(6200)$, $T_{\psi\psi}(6600)$, $T_{\psi\psi}(6900)$, and $T_{\psi\psi}(7300)$ structures as the candidates of the $1S$-wave, $1P/2S$-wave, $1D/2P$-wave, and $2D/3P/4S$-wave fully charmed tetraquark states, respectively. On account of the deficiency of sufficient experimental information, e.g., the parities of the newly observed $T_{\psi\psi}$ states, there are uncertainties about the assignments of the $T_{\psi\psi}(6600)$, $T_{\psi\psi}(6900)$, and $T_{\psi\psi}(7300)$ states. It is demonstrated that the further experimental survey on the $cc\bar c\bar c$ states, implemented by the LHCb, ATLAS, CMS, and other collaborations, ought to be continued in the future., Comment: 18 pages

Inspired by recent progresses in observations of the fully charmed tetraquark states by LHCb, CMS, and ATLAS Collaborations, we perform a systematic study of the ground states and the first radial excitations of the $S$- and $P$-wave $\mathrm{cc}\bar{\mathrm{c}}\bar{\mathrm{c}}$ system. Their mass spectra, root mean square(r.m.s.) radii and radial density distributions are studied with the relativized quark model. The calculations show that there is no stable bound states for the full-charmed tetraquark states, and the r.m.s. radii of these tetraquark states are smaller than 1 fm. Our results support assigning X(6600) structure, $M_{X(6600)}=6552\pm10\pm12$ MeV, as one of the $0^{++}$(1$S$) and $2^{++}$(1$S$) states or their mixtures. Another structure also named as X(6600) by CMS Collaboration, $M_{X(6600)}=6.62\pm0.03^{+0.02}_{-0.01}$ GeV, may arise from the lowest 1$P$ states with $J^{PC}$=$0^{-+}$, $1^{-+}$, and $2^{-+}$. The possible assignments for X(6900) include the $0^{++}$(2$S$), $2^{++}$(2$S$) states, and the highest 1$P$ state with $J^{PC}=0^{-+}$. As for X(7200), it can be interpreted as one of the highest 2$P$ states with $J^{PC}=0^{-+}$, $1^{-+}$, and $2^{-+}$, and the 3$S$ states can not be completely excluded from the candidates., Comment: to be published in European Physical Journal C

Based on the relativistic quark model and the infinitesimally shifted Gaussian basis function method, we investigate the mass spectra of double bottom baryons systematically. In the $\rho$-mode which appears lower in energy than the other excited modes, we obtain the allowed quantum states and perform a systematic study of the mass spectra of the $\Xi_{bb}$ and $\Omega_{bb}$ families. We analyze the root mean square radii and quark radial probability density distributions to deeply understand the structure of the heavy baryons. Meanwhile, the mass spectra allow us to successfully construct the Regge trajectories in the $(J,M^{2})$ plane. We also predict the masses of the ground states of double bottom baryons and discuss the differences between the structures of our spectra and those from other theoretical methods. At last, the shell structure of the double bottom baryon spectra is shown, from which one could get a bird's-eye view of the mass spectra., Comment: 16 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2207.04167

In this work, we perform a systematic study of the mass spectra, the root mean square(r.m.s.) radii and the radial density distributions of the doubly charmed baryons $\Xi_{cc}$ and $\Omega_{cc}$. The calculations are carried out in the frame work of Godfrey-Isgur (GI) relativized quark model, where the baryon is regarded as a real three-body system of quarks. Our results show that the excited energy of doubly charmed baryon with $\rho$-mode is lower than those of the $\lambda$-mode and $\lambda$-$\rho$ mixing mode, which indicates that the lowest state is dominated by the $\rho$-mode. According to this conclusion, we systematically investigate the mass spectra, the r.m.s. radii of the ground and excited states($1S\sim4S$, $1P\sim4P$, $1D\sim4D$, $1F\sim4F$ and $1G\sim4G$) with $\rho$-mode. Using the wave functions obtained from quark model, we also study the radial density distributions. Finally, with the predicated mass spectra, the Regge trajectories of $\Xi_{cc}$ and $\Omega_{cc}$ in the ($J$,$M^{2}$) plane are constructed, and the slopes, intercepts are determined by linear fitting. It is found that model predicted masses fit nicely to the constructed Regge trajectories.

In this work, we study the $D\bar{D}$, $DD$, $D\bar{D}_s$, $DD_s$, $D_s\bar{D}_s$ and $D_sD_s$ tetraquark molecular states with the $J^{PC}=0^{++}$ via the QCD sum rules. The prediction $M_{D_s\bar {D}_s} = 3.98\pm0.10\, \rm{GeV}$ is in very good agreement with the experimental value $M_{X(3960)} = 3956 \pm 5\pm 10 \,\rm{MeV}$ from the LHCb collaboration and supports assigning the $X(3960)$ as the $D_s^+D_s^-$ molecular state with the $J^{PC}=0^{++}$. We take account of our previous works on the four-quark states consisting of two color-neutral clusters, and acquire the mass spectrum of the ground state hidden-charm and doubly-charm tetraquark molecular states., Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures

In this paper, we apply the QCD sum rules to study the vector fully-light tetraquark states with an explicit P-wave between the diquark and antidiquark pair. We observed that the $C\gamma_\alpha\otimes\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{\partial}_\mu\otimes\gamma^\alpha C$ (or $C\gamma_\alpha\otimes\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}D_\mu\otimes\gamma^\alpha C$) type current with fully-strange quarks couples potentially to a tetraquark state with the mass $2.16 \pm 0.14 \,\rm{GeV}$, which supports assigning the $Y/\phi(2175)$ as the diquark-antidiquark type tetraquark state with the $J^{PC}=1^{--}$. The $qs\bar{q}\bar{s}$ and $ss\bar{s}\bar{s}$ vector tetraquark states with the structure $C\gamma_\mu\otimes \stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{\partial}_\alpha \otimes\gamma^\alpha C + C\gamma^\alpha \otimes\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}{\partial}_\alpha \otimes\gamma_\mu$ (or $C\gamma_\mu\otimes \stackrel{\leftrightarrow}D_\alpha \otimes\gamma^\alpha C + C\gamma^\alpha \otimes\stackrel{\leftrightarrow}D_\alpha \otimes\gamma_\mu$) are consistent with the $X(2200)$ and $X(2400)$ respectively, which lie in the region $2.20$ to $2.40\,\rm{GeV}$. The central values of the masses of the fully-strange vector tetraquark states with an explicit P-wave are about $2.16-3.13\,\rm{GeV}$ (or $2.16-3.16\,\rm{GeV}$), and the predictions for other fully-light vector tetraquark states with and without hidden-strange are also presented., Comment: 19 pages, 17 figures

In this paper, we investigate the mass spectra of bottom-charm baryons systematically, where the relativistic quark model and the infinitesimally shifted Gaussian basis function method are employed. Our calculation shows that the $\rho$-mode appears lower in energy than the other excited modes. According to this feature, the allowed quantum states are selected and a systematic study of the mass spectra for $\Xi_{bc}^{'}$ ($\Xi_{bc}$) and $\Omega_{bc}^{'}$ ($\Omega_{bc}$) families is performed. The root mean square radii and quark radial probability density distributions of these baryons are analyzed as well. Next, the Regge trajectories in the $(J,M^{2})$ plane are successfully constructed based on the mass spectra. At last, we present the structures of the mass spectra, and analyze the difficulty and opportunity in searching for the ground states of bottom-charm baryons in experiment., Comment: 19 pages, 9 figures, 6 tables. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2210.13085

In this work, we take all the color-antitriplet diquarks, such as the scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axialvector and tensor diquarks, as the basic constituents to construct the local pseudoscalar four-quark currents without importing the explicit P-waves to implement the negative-parity, and investigate the mass spectroscopy of the pseudoscalar hidden-charm tetraquark states without strange, with strange and with hidden-strange in the framework of the QCD sum rules in a consistent and comprehensive way. We obtain the lowest mass $4.56\pm0.08\,\rm{GeV}$ for the pseudoscalar tetraquark state with the symbolic quark constituents $c\bar{c}u\bar{d}$, which is much larger than the experimental value $4239\pm18{}^{+45}_{-10}\,\rm{MeV}$ extracted by the LHCb collaboration., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures

In the present work, we construct eight six-quark currents to study the $\Sigma_c\bar{\Sigma}_c$ baryonium and $\Sigma_c\Sigma_c$ dibaryon states via the QCD sum rules. For either $\Sigma_c\bar{\Sigma}_c$ baryonium or $\Sigma_c\Sigma_c$ dibaryon states, we construct four currents with the $J^P=1^-, 1^+, 0^+$ and $0^-$. Except the current $1^+$ of $\Sigma_c\Sigma_c$, we find the Borel windows for the other seven. There are two possible $\Sigma_c\bar{\Sigma}_c$ molecular states or compact six-quark states with the $J^P=1^-$ and $0^-$. The results of the current $0^+$ of $\Sigma_c\Sigma_c$ show a possible $\Sigma_c\Sigma_c$ molecular state with $20$ MeV binding energy. We find two $\Sigma_c\bar{\Sigma}_c$ baryonium resonances states with the $J^P=1^+, 0^+$ and two $\Sigma_c\Sigma_c$ dibaryon resonances states with the $J^P=0^-, 1^-$, respectively. Pole residues of the seven states are also calculated., Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2107.04751

In the QCD sum rules for the tetraquark (molecular) states, the higher dimensional vacuum condensates play an important role in extracting the tetraquark masses. We carry out the operator product expansion up to the vacuum condensates of dimension-10 and observe that the vacuum condensates of dimensions $6$, $8$ and $10$ have the same expressions but opposite signs for the $C\gamma_5\otimes \gamma_\mu C$-type and $C\otimes \gamma_\mu C$ type four-quark currents, which make their influences distinguishable, and they are excellent channels to examine the vacuum saturation approximation. We introduce a parameter $\kappa$ to parameterize the derivation from the vacuum saturation or factorization approximation, and choose two sets parameters to examine the influences on the predicted tetraquark masses, which can be confronted to the experimental data in the future. In all the channels, smaller value of the $\kappa$ leads to better convergent behavior in the operator product expansion, which favors the vacuum saturation approximation., Comment: 16 pages, 23 figures

In the present work, we investigate the scalar, axialvector and tensor doubly-charmed tetraquark molecular states without strange, with strange and with doubly-strange via the QCD sum rules, and try to make assignment of the $T^+_{cc}$ from the LHCb collaboration in the scenario of molecular states. The predictions favor assigning the $T^+_{cc}$ to be the lighter $DD^{*}$ molecular state with the spin-parity $J^P=1^+$ and isospin $I=0$, while the heavier $DD^{*}$ molecular state with the spin-parity $J^P=1^+$ and isospin $I=1$ still escapes experimental detections, the observation of the heavier $DD^{*}$ molecular state would shed light on the nature of the $T_{cc}^+$. All the predicted doubly-charmed tetraquark molecular states can be confronted to the experimental data in the future., Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2012.11869

In the present work, we adopt the scalar, pseudoscalar, vector, axialvector and tensor (anti)diquark operators as the elementary building blocks to construct vector and tensor local four-quark currents without introducing explicit P-waves, and explore the mass spectrum of the vector hidden-charm tetraquark states via the QCD sum rules comprehensively, and revisit the interpretations of the existing $Y$ states in the scenario of vector tetraquark states. We resort to the energy scale formula to enhance the pole contributions and improve the convergent behaviors of the operator product expansion, and we should bear in mind that the predictions are rather sensitive to the particular energy scales which obey the uniform/same constraint. The predicted vector hidden-charm tetraquark states can be confronted to the experimental data in the future., Comment: 16 pages, 4 figures

Recently, scientists have made great progresses in experiments in searching for the excited states of $\Xi_{b}$ and $\Lambda_{b}$ baryons such as the $\Lambda_{b}(6072)$, $\Lambda_{b}(6146)$, $\Lambda_{b}(6152)$, $\Xi_{b}(6227)$, $\Xi_{b}(6100)$, $\Xi_{b}(6327)$ and $\Xi_{b}(6333)$. Stimulated by these progresses, we give a systematical analysis about the $1D$ and $2D$ states of $\Xi_{b}$ and $\Lambda_{b}$ baryons with the method of QCD sum rules. By constructing three types of interpolating currents, we calculate the masses and pole residues of these heavy baryons with different excitation modes $(L_{\rho},L_{\lambda})=(0,2)$, $(2,0)$ and $(1,1)$. As a result, we decode the inner structures of $\Lambda_{b}(6146)$, $\Lambda_{b}(6152)$, $\Xi_{b}(6327)$ and $\Xi_{b}(6333)$, and favor assigning these states as the $1D$ baryons with the quantum numbers $(L_{\rho},L_{\lambda})=(0,2)$ and $\frac{3}{2}^{+}$, $\frac{5}{2}^{+}$, $\frac{3}{2}^{+}$ and $\frac{5}{2}^{+}$, respectively. In addition, the predictions about the masses and pole residues of the other $1D$ and $2D$ states of $\Xi_{b}$ and $\Lambda_{b}$ baryons in this paper are helpful in studying the D-wave bottom baryons in experiments in the future.

In this article, we construct the six-quark currents with the $J^P=0^+$, $0^-$, $1^+$ and $1^-$ to study the $\Lambda_c$$\Lambda_c$ dibaryon and $\Lambda_c$$\bar{\Lambda}_c$ baryonium states via QCD sum rules. We consider the vacuum condensates up to dimension 16 and truncation of the order $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^k )$ with $k\leq3$. The predicted masses are $5.11_{-0.12}^{+0.15}$GeV, $4.66_{-0.06}^{+0.10}$GeV, $4.99_{-0.09}^{+0.10}$GeV $4.68^{+0.08}_{-0.08}$GeV for the $J^P=0^+$, $0^-$, $1^+$ and $1^-$ states, respectively, which can be confronted to the experimental data in the future considering the high integrated luminosity at the center-of-mass energy about $4.8\,\rm{GeV}$ at the BESIII. We find the terms with $\frac{3}{2}< k \leq 3$ do play a tiny role, and we can ignore these terms safely in the QCD sum rules., Comment: 49 pages,16 figures

In the present work, we construct the color-singlet-color-singlet type four-quark currents to investigate the $D_s\bar{D}_{s1}$ and $D_s^*\bar{D}_{s0}^*$ tetraquark molecular states with the $J^{PC}=1^{--}$ and $1^{-+}$ via the QCD sum rules, and obtain satisfactory results. We can search for the $D_s\bar{D}_{s1}$ and $D_s^*\bar{D}_{s0}^*$ tetraquark molecular states with the $J^{PC}=1^{--}$ and $1^{-+}$ at the BESIII and Belle II in the future., Comment: 11 pages, 4 figures

In the article, we investigate the diquark-diquark-antiquark type fully-heavy pentaquark states with the spin-parity $J^P={\frac{1}{2}}^-$ via the QCD sum rules, and obtain the masses $M_{cccc\bar{c}}=7.93\pm 0.15\,\rm{GeV}$ and $M_{bbbb\bar{b}}=23.91\pm0.15\,\rm{GeV}$. We can search for the fully-heavy pentaquark states in the $J/\psi \Omega_{ccc}$ and $\Upsilon \Omega_{bbb}$ invariant mass spectrum in the future., Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures

In this article, we investigate the $\bar{D}\Sigma_c$, $\bar{D}\Xi^\prime_c$, $\bar{D}\Sigma_c^*$, $\bar{D}\Xi_c^*$, $\bar{D}^{*}\Sigma_c$, $\bar{D}^{*}\Xi^\prime_c$, $\bar{D}^{*}\Sigma_c^*$ and $\bar{D}^{*}\Xi_c^*$ pentaquark molecular states with strangeness and without strangeness via the QCD sum rules at length, pay much attention to the light flavor $SU(3)$ breaking effects, and make predictions for new pentaquark molecular states besides assigning the $P_c(4312)$, $P_c(4380)$, $P_c(4440)$, $P_c(4457)$ and $P_{cs}(4459)$ self-consistently. We can search for those pentaquark molecular states in the decays of the $\Lambda_b^0$, $\Xi_b^0$ and $\Xi_b^-$ in the future. Furthermore, we discuss the higher dimensional vacuum condensates in details., Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures

Without excluding the contributions of factorizable Feynman diagrams in the color space to the QCD sum rules by hand, we cannot obtain the conclusion that the factorizable parts of the operator product expansion series cannot have any relationship to the possible tetraquark bound states. The tetraquark couplings $f_T$ are of the order $\mathcal{O}(N_c)$ rather than of the order $\mathcal{O}(N^0_c)$ in the large $N_c$ limit, the conclusion "a possible exotic tetraquark state may appear only in $N_c$-subleading contributions to the QCD Green functions" is a paradox., Comment: 3 pages, 1 figure

In this article, we firstly derive two QCD sum rules QCDSR I and QCDSR II which are respectively used to extract observable quantities of the ground states and the first radially excited states of D-wave vector $\rho$ and $\phi$ mesons. In our calculations, we consider the contributions of vacuum condensates up to dimension-7 in the operator product expansion. The predicted masses for $1^{3}D_{1}$ $\rho$ meson and $2^{3}D_{1}$ $\phi$ meson are consistent well with the experimental data of $\rho$($1700$) and $\phi$($2170$). Besides, our analysis indicates that it is reliable to assign the recent reported $Y$($2040$) state as the $2^{3}D_{1}$ $\rho$ meson. Finally, we obtain the decay constants of these states with QCDSR I and QCDSR II. These predictions are helpful not only to reveal the structure of the newly observed $Y$($2040$) state but also to establish $\phi$ meson and $\rho$ meson families.

In this article, we take into account our previous calculations based on the QCD sum rules, and tentatively assign the $X(4630)$ as the $D_s^*\bar{D}_{s1}-D_{s1}\bar{D}_s^*$ tetraquark molecular state or $[cs]_P[\bar{c}\bar{s}]_A+[cs]_A[\bar{c}\bar{s}]_P$ tetraquark state with the $J^{PC}=1^{-+}$, and assign the $X(3915)$ and $X(4500)$ as the 1S and 2S $[cs]_A[\bar{c}\bar{s}]_A$ tetraquark states respectively with the $J^{PC}=0^{++}$. Then we extend our previous works to investigate the LHCb's new tetraquark candidate $X(4685)$ as the first radial excited state of the $X(4140)$ with the QCD sum rules, and obtain the mass $M_{X}=4.70\pm0.12\,\rm{GeV}$, which is in very good agreement with the experimental value $4684 \pm 7 {}^{+13}_{-16}\,\rm{MeV}$. Furthermore, we investigate the two-meson scattering state contributions in details, and observe that the two-meson scattering states alone cannot saturate the QCD sum rules, the contributions of the tetraquark states play an un-substitutable role, we can saturate the QCD sum rules with or without the two-meson scattering states., Comment: 17 pages, 2 figure

In this work, we construct the color-singlet-color-singlet type six-quark pseudoscalar current to investigate the $\overline{\Xi}_{cc}\Xi_{cc}$ hexaquark molecular state with the QCD sum rules, the predicted mass $M_X \sim 7.2\,\rm{GeV}$ supports assigning the $X(7200)$ to be the $\overline{\Xi}_{cc}\Xi_{cc}$ hexaquark molecular state with the quantum numbers $J^{PC}=0^{-+}$. The $X(7200)$ can decay through fusions of the $\bar{c}c$ and $\bar{q}q$ pairs, we can search for the $X(7200)$ and explore its properties in the $J/\psi J/\psi$, $\chi_{c1}\chi_{c1}$, $D^*\bar{D}^*$ and $D_1\bar{D}_1$ invariant mass spectrum in the future., Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures

In this article, we construct the color-singlet-color-singlet type currents and the color-singlet-color-singlet-color-singlet type currents to study the scalar $D^*\bar{D}^*$, $D^*D^*$ tetraquark molecular states and the vector $D^*D^*\bar{D}^*$, $D^*D^*D^*$ hexaquark molecular states with the QCD sum rules in details. In calculations, we choose the pertinent energy scales of the QCD spectral densities with the energy scale formula $\mu=\sqrt{M^2_{T}-(2{\mathbb{M}}_c)^2}$ and $\sqrt{M^2_{H}-(3{\mathbb{M}}_c)^2}$ for the tetraquark and hexaquark molecular states respectively in a consistent way. We obtain stable QCD sum rules for the scalar $D^*\bar{D}^*$, $D^*D^*$ tetraquark molecular states and the vector $D^*D^*\bar{D}^*$ hexaquark molecular state, but cannot obtain stable QCD sum rules for the vector $D^*D^*D^*$ hexaquark molecular state. The connected (nonfactorizable) Feynman diagrams at the tree level (or the lowest order) and their induced diagrams via substituting the quark lines make positive contributions for the scalar $D^*D^*$ tetraquark molecular state, but make negative or destructive contributions for the vector $D^*D^*D^*$ hexaquark molecular state. It is of no use or meaningless to distinguish the factorizable and nonfactorizable properties of the Feynman diagrams in the color space in the operator product expansion so as to interpret them in terms of the hadronic observables, we can only obtain information about the short-distance and long-distance contributions., Comment: 22 pages, 18 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2002.06202

In this article, we construct the charmed-diquark-charmed-diquark-charmed-diquark type current to study the axialvector triply-charmed hexaquark state with the QCD sum rules in details. In calculations, we take the energy scale formula $\mu=\sqrt{M^2_{H}-(3{\mathbb{M}}_c)^2}$ to choose the pertinent energy scale of the QCD spectral density so as to enhance the pole contribution and improve the convergent behavior of the operator product expansion. If the spin-breaking effects are small for the triply-charmed hexaquark states, the ground state hexaquark states with $J^P=0^+$, $1^+$ and $2^+$ are estimated to have the masses about $5.8\,\rm{GeV}$ and narrow widths., Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2003.10631, arXiv:1912.07230

The quarks and gluons are confined objects, they cannot be put on the mass-shell, it is questionable to apply the Landau equation to study the Feynman diagrams in the QCD sum rules. Furthermore, we carry out the operator product expansion in the deep Euclidean region $p^2\to -\infty$, where the Landau singularities cannot exist. The Landau equation servers as a kinematical equation in the momentum space, and is independent on the factorizable and nonfactorizable properties of the Feynman diagrams in the color space. The meson-meson scattering state and tetraquark molecular state both have four valence quarks, which form two color-neutral clusters, we cannot distinguish the contributions based on the two color-neutral clusters in the factorizable Feynman diagrams. Lucha, Melikhov and Sazdjian assert that the contributions at the order $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^k)$ with $k\leq1$ in the operator product expansion, which are factorizable in the color space, are exactly canceled out by the meson-meson scattering states at the hadron side, the tetraquark molecular states begin to receive contributions at the order $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2)$. Such an assertion is questionable, we refute the assertion in details, and choose an axialvector current and a tensor current to examine the outcome of the assertion. After detailed analysis, we observe that the meson-meson scattering states cannot saturate the QCD sum rules, while the tetraquark molecular states can saturate the QCD sum rules. The Landau equation is of no use to study the Feynman diagrams in the QCD sum rules for the tetraquark molecular states, the tetraquark molecular states begin to receive contributions at the order $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^0/\alpha_s^1)$ rather than at the order $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2)$., Comment: 23 pages, 13 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.07914, arXiv:1912.07230

In this article, we introduce an explicit P-wave to construct three-quark currents to study the P-wave $\Omega_b$ states with the full QCD sum rules. The predicted masses have a hierarchy if the same parameters are chosen and favor assigning the $\Omega_b(6316)$, $\Omega_b(6330)$, $\Omega_b(6340)$ and $\Omega_b(6350)$ to be the P-wave $\Omega_b$ states with the $J^P={\frac{3}{2}}^-$, ${\frac{1}{2}}^-$, ${\frac{5}{2}}^-$ and ${\frac{3}{2}}^-$, respectively., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures

In this article, we investigate the mass spectrum of the ground state hidden-charm tetraquark molecular states without strange, with strange and with hidden-strange via the QCD sum rules in a comprehensive way and revisit the assignments of the $X$, $Y$, $Z$ states in the scenario of tetraquark molecular states consistently based on the QCD sum rules., Comment: 17 pages, 4 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1908.07914

In this article, we introduce a relative P-wave to construct the doubly-charm axialvector diquark operator, then take the doubly-charm axialvector (anti)diquark operator as the basic constituent to construct the scalar and tensor tetraquark currents to study the scalar, axialvector and tensor fully-charm tetraquark states with the QCD sum rules. We observe that the ground state $\tilde{A}\tilde{A}$ type tetraquark states and the first radial excited states of the $AA$ type tetraquark states have almost degenerated masses, where the $\tilde{A}$ and $A$ stand for the diquark operators with and without the relative P-wave respectively, the broad structure above the $J/\psi J/\psi$ threshold maybe consist of several diquark-antidiquark type fully-charm tetraquark states., Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2006.13028

In this article, we restudy the mass spectrum of the ground state triply-heavy baryon states with the QCD sum rules by carrying out the operator product expansion up to the vacuum condensates of dimension 6 in a consistent way and preforming a novel analysis. It is the first time to take into account the three-gluon condensates in the QCD sum rules for the triply-heavy baryon states., Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures