The spectrum of heavy-quark hybrids is studied in the leading Born-Oppenheimer (LBO) approximation and using leading-order NRQCD simulations with an improved gluon action on anisotropic lattices. The masses of four hybrid states are obtained from our simulations for lattice spacings 0.1 fm and 0.2 fm and are compared to the LBO predictions obtained using previously-determined glue-excited static potentials. The consistency of results from the two approaches reveals a compelling physical picture for heavy-quark hybrid states.
We present a quenched lattice calculation for the lowest lying $b bar b g$-hybrid states in the framework of NRQCD using the leading order Hamiltonian up to ${cal O}(mv^2)$. We demonstrate the existence of a nearly degenerate rotational band of state
s with an excitation energy approximately 1.6 GeV above the $Upsilon$ ground state. This lies around the $B bar B_J^*$-threshold but well above the $B bar B$-threshold. Therefore a heavy hybrid signal may well be detected if the centre-of-mass energy in B-factories is raised a few hundred MeV to coincide with other resonances above the 4S state. Our prediction is consistent with most phenomenological models and lattice calculations carried out in the static limit.
We study tetraquark resonances with lattice QCD potentials computed for a static bbar bbar pair in the presence of two lighter quarks u d, the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and the emergent wave method. As a proof of concept we focus on the system w
ith isospin I = 0, but consider different relative angular momenta l of the heavy quarks bbar bbar. For l=0 a bound state has already been predicted with quantum numbers I(JP) = 0(1+). Exploring various angular momenta we now compute the phase shifts and search for S and T matrix poles in the second Riemann sheet. We predict a tetraquark resonance for l =1, decaying into two B mesons, with quantum numbers I(JP) = 0(1-), mass m = 10 , 576^{+4}_{-4} MeV} and decay width Gamma = 112^{+90}_{-103} MeV.
We study tetraquark resonances using lattice QCD potentials for a pair of static antiquarks $bar{b}bar{b}$ in the presence of two light quarks $ud$. The system is treated in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation and we use the emergent wave method. We f
ocus on the isospin $I=0$ channel, but consider different orbital angular momenta $l$ of the heavy antiquarks $bar{b}bar{b}$. We extract the phase shifts and search for $mbox{S}$ and $mbox{T}$ matrix poles on the second Riemann sheet. For orbital angular momentum $l=1$ we find a tetraquark resonance with quantum numbers $I(J^P)=0(1^-)$, resonance mass $m=10576^{+4}_{-4} , textrm{MeV}$ and decay width $Gamma= 112^{+90}_{-103} textrm{MeV}$, which can decay into two $B$ mesons.
We report on a study of B mesons on N_f = 2 full QCD configurations using an RG-improved gauge action, NRQCD heavy quark action and tadpole-improved clover light quark action. Results on the heavy-light spectrum and the decay constants from 16^3x32 l
attices at a^{-1} ~ 1.5 GeV are presented, and compared with quenched results obtained with the same action combination at matching lattice spacings.
We present a calculation of the heavy quarks self energy in moving NRQCD to one-loop in perturbation theory. Results for the energy shift and external momentum renormalisation are discussed and compared with non-perturbative results. We show that the
momentum renormalisation is small, which is the result of a remnant of re-parameterisation invariance on the lattice.