Multiquark Systems in a Constituent Quark Model with Chiral Dynamics

Abstract

We discuss the stability of multiquark systems within the recent model of Glozman et al. where the chromomagnetic hyperfine interaction is replaced by pseudoscalar-meson exchange. We find that such an interaction binds a heavy tetraquark system $QQ\bar q\bar q$ ($Q=c, b$ and $q=u, d)$ by $0.2-0.4$ GeV. This is at variance with results of previous models where $cc\bar q\bar q$ is unstable.Comment: 6 pages, Plain Latex, Contribution to the Workshop''Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum II'', Como, Italy, June 26--29, 1996, to appear in the Proceedings, ed. Nora Brambilla, World Scientifi