We have studied the masses for fully open-flavor tetraquark states $bcbar{q}bar{s}$ and $scbar{q}bar{b}$ with quantum numbers $J^{P}=0^{+},1^{+}$. We systematically construct all diquark-antiquark interpolating currents and calculate the two-point correlation functions and spectral densities in the framework of QCD sum rule method. Our calculations show that the masses are about $7.1-7.2$ GeV for the $bcbar{q}bar{s}$ tetraquark states and $7.0-7.1$ GeV for the $scbar{q}bar{b}$ tetraquarks. The masses of $bcbar{q}bar{s}$ tetraquarks are below the thresholds of $bar{B}_{s}D$ and $bar{B}_{s}^{*}D$ final states for the scalar and axial-vector channels respectively. The $scbar{q}bar{b}$ tetraquark states with $J^{P}=1^{+}$ lie below the $B_{c}^{+}K^{*}$ and $B_{s}^{*}D$ thresholds. Such low masses for these possible tetraquark states indicate that they can only decay via weak interaction and thus are very narrow and stable.
In this work, we study systematically the mass splittings of the $qqbar{Q}bar{Q}$ ($q=u$, $d$, $s$ and $Q=c$, $b$) tetraquark states with the color-magnetic interaction by considering color mixing effects and estimate roughly their masses. We find that the color mixing effect is relatively important for the $J^P=0^+$ states and possible stable tetraquarks exist in the $nnbar{Q}bar{Q}$ ($n=u$, $d$) and $nsbar{Q}bar{Q}$ systems either with $J=0$ or with $J=1$. Possible decay patterns of the tetraquarks are briefly discussed.
In the framework of the color-magnetic interaction, we systematically investigate the mass spectrum of the tetraquark states composed of four heavy quarks with the $QQbar Qbar Q$ configuration in this work. We also show their strong decay patterns. Stable or narrow states in the $bbbar{b}bar{c}$ and $bcbar{b}bar{c}$ systems are found to be possible. We hope the studies shall be helpful to the experimental search for heavy-full exotic tetraquark states.
We have calculated the mass spectra for the $bar{D}_s^{(*)}D^{(*)}$ molecular states and $scbar qbar c$ tetraquark states with $J^P=0^+, 1^+, 2^+$. The masses of the axial-vector $bar{D}_sD^{*}$, $bar{D}_s^{*}D$ molecular states and $mathbf{1}_{[sc]} oplus mathbf{0}_{[bar q bar{c}]}$, $mathbf{0}_{[sc]} oplus mathbf{1}_{[bar q bar{c}]}$ tetraquark states are predicted to be around 3.98 GeV, which are in good agreement with the mass of $Z_{cs}(3985)^-$ from BESIII cite{besiii2020Zcs}. In both the molecular and diquark-antidiquark pictures, our results suggest that there may exist two almost degenerate states, as the strange partners of the $X(3872)$ and $Z_c(3900)$. We propose to carefully examine the $Z_{cs}(3985)$ in future experiments to verify this. One may also search for more hidden-charm four-quark states with strangeness not only in the open-charm $bar{D}_s^{(*)}D^{(*)}$ channels, but also in the hidden-charm channels $eta_c K/K^ast$, $J/psi K/K^ast$.
We study the existence of fully-heavy hidden-flavor $bcbar{b}bar{c}$ tetraquark states with various $J^{PC}=0^{pm+}, 0^{--},1^{pmpm}, 2^{++}$, by using the moment QCD sum rule method augmented by fundamental inequalities. Using the moment sum rule analyses, our calculation shows that the masses for the S-wave positive parity $bcbar{b}bar{c}$ tetraquark states are about $12.2-12.4$ GeV in both $[mathbf{bar{3}_c}]_{bc}otimes[mathbf{3_c}]_{bar{b}bar{c}}$ and $[mathbf{6_c}]_{bc}otimes[mathbf{bar{6}_c}]_{bar{b}bar{c}}$ color configuration channels. Except for two $0^{++}$ states, such results are below the thresholds $T_{eta_ceta_b}/T_{Upsilonpsi}$ and $T_{B_cB_c}$, implying that these S-wave positive parity $bcbar{b}bar{c}$ tetraquark states are probably stable against the strong interaction. For the P-wave negative parity $bcbar{b}bar{c}$ tetraquarks, their masses in the $[mathbf{bar{3}_c}]_{bc}otimes[mathbf{3_c}]_{bar{b}bar{c}}$ channel are around $12.9-13.2$ GeV, while a bit higher in the $[mathbf{6_c}]_{bc}otimes[mathbf{bar{6}_c}]_{bar{b}bar{c}}$ channel. They can decay into the $cbar c+bbar b$ and $cbar b+bbar c$ final states via the spontaneous dissociation mechanism, including the $J/psiUpsilon$, $eta_cUpsilon$, $J/psieta_b$, $B_c^+B_c^-$ channels.
Very recently, the LHCb Collaboration observed distinct structures with the $ccbar{c}bar{c}$ in the $J/Psi$-pair mass spectrum. In this work, we construct four scalar ($J^{PC} = 0^{++}$) $[8_c]_{Qbar{Q^prime}}otimes [8_c]_{Q^prime bar{Q}}$ type currents to investigate the fully-heavy tetraquark state $Q Q^prime bar{Q} bar{Q^prime}$ in the framework of QCD sum rules, where $Q=c, b$ and $Q^prime = c, b$. Our results suggest that the broad structure around 6.2-6.8 GeV can be interpreted as the $0^{++}$ octet-octet tetraquark states with masses $6.44pm 0.11$ GeV and $6.52pm 0.10$ GeV, and the narrow structure around $6.9$ GeV can be interpreted as the $0^{++}$ octet-octet tetraquark states with masses $6.87pm 0.11$ GeV and $6.96pm 0.11$ GeV, respectivley. Extending to the b-quark sector,the masses of their fully-bottom partners are found to be around 18.38-18.59 GeV. Additionally, we also analyze the spectra of the $[cbar{c}][bbar{b}]$ and $[cbar{b}] [b bar{c}]$ tetraquark states, which lie in the range of 12.51-12.74 GeV and 12.49-12.81 GeV, respectively.