1. Tetraquark and two-meson states at large $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$.
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Lucha, Wolfgang, Melikhov, Dmitri, and Sazdjian, Hagop
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TETRAQUARK , *PAIRING correlations (Nuclear physics) , *QUANTUM chromodynamics , *INTERMEDIATE state (Superconductors) , *EXOTIC atoms - Abstract
Considering four-point correlation functions of color-singlet quark bilinears, we investigate, in the large- $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ limit of QCD, the subleading diagrams that involve, in the s-channel of meson-meson scattering amplitudes, two-quark-two-antiquark intermediate states. The latter contribute, together with gluon exchanges, to the formation, at the hadronic level, of two-meson and tetraquark intermediate states. It is shown that the two-meson contributions, which are predictable, in general, from leading-order $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ -behaviors, consistently satisfy the constraints resulting from the $$1/N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ expansion procedure and thus provide a firm basis for the extraction of tetraquark properties from $$N_{\mathrm {c}}$$ -subleading diagrams. We find that, in general, tetraquarks, if they exist in compact form, should have narrow decay widths, of the order of $$N_{\mathrm {c}}^{-2}$$ . For the particular case of exotic tetraquarks, involving four different quark flavors, two different types of tetraquark are needed, each having a preferred decay channel, to satisfy the consistency constraints. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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