18-24 June 2017
Palacio de Congresos
Europe/Madrid timezone
Contribution Parallel
Andalucía II
Hadron Spectroscopy and Interactions
The search for beauty-fully bound tetraquarks
Speakers
- Dr. Ciaran HUGHES
Primary authors
- Dr. Ciaran HUGHES (Fermilab)
Co-authors
- Prof. Christine DAVIES (University of Glasgow)
- Dr. Estia EICHTEN (Fermilab)
- Andreas KRONFELD (Fermilab)
- Dr. Ruth VAN DE WATER (Fermilab)
- Dr. james SIMONE (fermilab)
- Dr. Paul MCKENZIE (Fermilab)
- Dr. Aarti VEERNALA (Fermilab)
- Mr. Aaron MEYER (U. Of Chicago)
- Mr. Zech GELZER (U. Of Iowa)
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Content
Within the last year it has been proposed that an exotic tetraquark state composed of two $b$-quarks and two $\bar{b}$-quarks could exist sufficiently far below the $2\eta_b$ threshold so to be found experimentally at the LHC. Such a state would be particularly clean theoretically because of its heavy quark content and, if it really is too light to decay to $2\eta_b$, annihilation and threshold effects would be small. Using an NRQCD methodology, we present the results of our search for this exciting state.
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