Ground state heavy tetraquark production in heavy quark fragmentation

Abstract

During recent years, the study of exotic hadrons including tetraquarks and pentaquarks has attracted a lot of interests and more studies are in progress experimentally and theoretically. It is well-known that at sufficiently large transverse momentum the dominant production mechanism for standard heavy hadrons (mesons/baryons) is actually the fragmentation so that the same mechanism is also proposed for the production of heavy exotic hadrons. This work is the first attempt to study the direct fragmentation of a heavy quark into ground state heavy tetraquarks in leading order of perturbative QCD. In this regard, we will present an exact analytical expression for the fragmentation production of neutral hidden flavor tetraquarks $(Qq\bar{Q}\bar{q})$ which includes most of the kinematical and dynamical properties of the process.

The manuscript includes 8 pages and 3 figures. Accepted to be published in Physical Review D (2022)

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