Abstract
We present a generalization of the hyperspherical harmonic formalism to study systems made of quarks and antiquarks of the same flavor. This generalization is based on the symmetrization of the N-body wave function with respect to the symmetric group using the Barnea and Novoselsky algorithm. The formalism is applied to study four-quark systems by means of a constituent quark model successful in the description of the two- and three-quark systems. The results are compared to those obtained by means of variational approaches. Our analysis shows that four-quark systems with exotic 0+- and nonexotic 2++ quantum numbers may be bound independently of the mass of the quark. 2+- and 1+- states become attractive only for larger mass of the quarks.
Original language | American English |
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Article number | 054004 |
Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2006 |