We study $bar qq$-hybrid mixing for the light vector mesons and $bar qq$-glueball mixing for the light scalar mesons in Monte-Carlo based QCD Laplace sum rules. By calculating the two-point correlation function of a vector $bar qgamma_mu q$ (scalar $bar q q$) current and a hybrid (glueball) current we are able to estimate the mass and the decay constants of the corresponding mixed physical state that couples to both currents. Our results do not support strong quark/gluonic mixing for either the $1^{--}$ or the $0^{++}$ states.
We apply the method of QCD sum rules in the presence of external electromagnetic fields $F_{mu u}$ to the problem of the electromagnetic decays of various vector mesons, such as $rhotopigamma$, $K^astto Kgamma$ and $etatorhogamma$. The induced conden
sates obtained previously from the study of baryon magnetic moments are adopted, thereby ensuring the parameter-free nature of the present calculation. Further consistency is reinforced by invoking various QCD sum rules for the meson masses. The numerical results on the various radiative decays agree very well with the experimental data.
We use QCD Laplace sum-rules to explore mixing between conventional mesons and hybrids in the heavy quarkonium vector $J^{PC}!=!1^{--}$ channel. Our cross-correlator includes perturbation theory and contributions proportional to the four-dimensional
and six-dimensional gluon condensates. We input experimentally determined charmonium and bottomonium hadron masses into both single and multi-resonance models in order to test them for conventional meson and hybrid components. In the charmonium sector we find evidence for meson-hybrid mixing in the $J/psi$ and a $approx4.3$ GeV resonance. In the bottomonium sector, we find that the $Upsilon(1S)$, $Upsilon(2S)$, $Upsilon(3S)$, and $Upsilon(4S)$ all exhibit mixing.
We use QCD Laplace sum-rules to study meson-hybrid mixing in vector ($1^{--}$) heavy quarkonium. We compute the QCD cross-correlator between a heavy meson current and a heavy hybrid current within the operator product expansion. In addition to leadin
g-order perturbation theory, we include four- and six-dimensional gluon condensate contributions as well as a six-dimensional quark condensate contribution. We construct several single and multi-resonance models that take known hadron masses as inputs. We investigate which resonances couple to both currents and so exhibit meson-hybrid mixing. Compared to single resonance models that include only the ground state, we find that models that also include excited states lead to significantly improved agreement between QCD and experiment. In the charmonium sector, we find that meson-hybrid mixing is consistent with a two-resonance model consisting of the $J/psi$ and a 4.3~GeV resonance. In the bottomonium sector, we find evidence for meson-hybrid mixing in the $Upsilon(1S)$, $Upsilon(2S)$, $Upsilon(3S)$, and $Upsilon(4S)$.
We study $bar{Q}Qbar{q}q$ and $bar{Q}qQbar{q}$ molecular states as mixed states in QCD sum rules. By calculating the two-point correlation functions of pure states of their corresponding currents, we review the mass and coupling constant predictions
of $J^{PC}=1^{++}$, $1^{--}$, $1^{-+}$ molecular states. By calculating the two-point mixed correlation functions of $bar{Q}Qbar{q}q$ and $bar{Q}qQbar{q}$ molecular currents, and we estimate the mass and coupling constants of the corresponding ``physical state that couples to both $bar{Q}Qbar{q}q$ and $bar{Q}qQbar{q}$ currents. Our results suggest that $1^{++}$ states are more likely mixing from $bar{Q}Qbar{q}q$ and $bar{Q}qQbar{q}$ components, while for $1^{--}$ and $1^{-+}$ states, there is less mixing between $bar{Q}Qbar{q}q$ and $bar{Q}qQbar{q}$. Our results suggest the $Y$ series of states have more complicated components.
Constituent mass predictions for axial vector (i.e., $J^P=1^+$) $cc$ and $bb$ colour antitriplet diquarks are generated using QCD Laplace sum-rules. We calculate the diquark correlator within the operator product expansion to NLO, including terms pro
portional to the four- and six-dimensional gluon and six-dimensional quark condensates. The sum-rules analyses stabilize, and we find that the mass of the $cc$ diquark is 3.51~GeV and the mass of the $bb$ diquark is 8.67~GeV. Using these diquark masses as inputs, we calculate several tetraquark masses within the Type-II diquark-antidiquark tetraquark model.