Possible triply heavy tetraquark states

Abstract

In the present work, the triply heavy tetraquarks state (QQ Q q, Q = c, b, q = u, d, s) with all possible quantum numbers are systematically investigated in the framework of the chiral quark model with the resonance ground method. Two structures, including the meson-meson configuration (the color-single channels and the hidden-color channels) and the diquark-antidiquark configuration (the color sextet-antisextet and the color triplet-antitriplet), are considered. With the studied mass region, several bound states are obtained for the ccc q′ , bbc q′ and bcc q tetraquarks, respectively. From the results, an important feature can be found that the channel coupling calculation is of great significance for whether some tetraquarks will form bound states. For those predicted bound states, we expect to provide effective assistance in the experimental search for exotic states.