Static-static-light-light tetraquarks in lattice QCD

Abstract

I report on a lattice computation of the energy of a system of two light quarks and two static antiquarks as a function of the separation of the static antiquarks. In terms of hadrons such a system corresponds to a pair of B mesons and its energy to the hadronic potential. I present selected results for different isospin, spin and parity combinations of the individual B mesons mainly focusing on those channels relevant to determine, whether two B mesons may form a bound tetraquark state.

6 pages, 1 figure, talk given at "Excited QCD 2011", February 20-25 2011, Les Houches, France