Volume 518 - The 42nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2025) - Parallel Session Hadronic and nuclear spectrum and interactions
Electromagnetic form factors and structure of the $T_{bb}$ tetraquark
I. Vujmilović*, S. Collins, L. Leskovec and S. Prelovsek
*: corresponding author
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Abstract
We present the first lattice QCD calculation of electromagnetic form factors of a tetraquark, focusing on the $T_{bb} = bb\bar u \bar d$ with quantum numbers $I(J^P) = 0(1^+)$. The electromagnetic current probes the charge monopole, magnetic dipole and the electric quadrupole distributions within the tetraquark. From it, we find evidence that its structure consists of a compact heavy diquark $[bb]$ in spin one, color-antitriplet configuration, and a light antidiquark $[\bar u \bar d]$ in spin zero, color-triplet configuration. The computations were performed on a single CLS ensemble with $N_f = 2+1$ dynamical quarks at a lattice spacing $a\approx 0.064$ fm and with a pion mass $m_\pi \approx 290$ MeV.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.518.0076
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