Zooming in on Multiquark Hadrons within QCD Sum-Rule Approaches

Author(s)
Wolfgang Lucha, Dmitri Melikhov, Hagop Sazdjian
Abstract

Aiming at self-consistent descriptions of multiquark hadrons (such as tetraquarks, pentaquarks, hexaquarks) by means of QCD sum rules, we note that the totality of contributions to two-point or three-point correlation functions that involve, respectively, either two or just a single operator capable of interpolating the particular multiquark under study can be straightforwardly disentangled into two disjoint classes defined by unambiguously identifiable members. The first is formed by so-called multiquark-phile contributions which indeed might support multiquarks. In the case of flavour-exotic tetraquarks, by definition composed of four (anti-) quarks of mutually different flavours, a tetraquark-phile contribution has to exhibit two or more gluon exchanges of appropriate topology. The second consists of contributions evidently not bearing any relation to multiquarks; these must be discarded when studying multiquarks by QCD sum rules. The first class only should enter the “multiquark-adequate” QCD sum rules for exotic hadrons.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Universität Wien, Université Paris-Saclay, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
Journal
EPJ Web of Conferences
No. of pages
8
ISSN
2100-014X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227403004
Publication date
2022
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103034 Particle physics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Physics and Astronomy(all), Space and Planetary Science, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/zooming-in-on-multiquark-hadrons-within-qcd-sumrule-approaches(25e41e12-153a-4328-b033-15aff841aaaf).html