2003/11/14 by Richard J. Lloyd, R. Lloyd, James P. Vary
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.70.014009
published as Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 014009 · 24 pgs, 10 tables
arxiv created 2003/11/14 · openalex publication_date 2004/07/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We investigate four-body states with only charm quarks. Working in a large but finite oscillator basis, we present a net binding analysis to determine if the resulting states are stable against breakup into a pair of cc mesons. We find several close-lying bound states in the two models we examine.