2023/06/22 by Luciano M. Abreu, Fabiana Carvalho, Abreu, L. M. +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2306.12731
openalex publication_date 2023/06/22 · openalex created_date 2023/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The production of fully-heavy tetraquark states in proton-proton (pp) and proton-nucleus (pA) collisions at the center-of-mass energies of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and at the Future Circular Collider (FCC) is investigated considering that these states are produced through the double parton scattering mechanism. We estimate the cross sections for the T4c, T4b and T2b2c states and present predictions for pp, pCa and pPb collisions considering the rapidity ranges covered by central and forward detectors. We demonstrate that the cross sections for pA collisions are enhanced in comparison to the pp predictions scaled by the atomic number. Moreover, our results indicate that a search of these exotic states is, in principle, feasible in the future runs of the LHC and FCC.