Electromagnetic and hadronic decay of fully heavy tetraquark

Abstract

In this study, we compute the electromagnetic and hadronic decay widths of the S-wave fully heavy tetraquark $T_{4Q}$ ($Q=c$ or $b$) at lowest order in $\alpha_s$ and $v$, in the framework of nonrelativistic QCD. The short-distance coefficients are determined through the standard procedure of matching. The nonperturbative long-distance matrix elements are related to the phenomenological four-body Schr\"odinger wave functions at the origin, whose values are taken from literature. The branching fractions are predicted to be around $10^{-3}$ and $10^{-6}$ for the $T_{4c}$ hadronic decay and electromagnetic decay, respectively. Combing our results with the $T_{4c}$ production cross sections at the LHC, we also predict the event numbers for various decay channels. With integrated luminosity $\mathcal{L}=100 \,{\rm fb}^{-1}$, it is expected that the event numbers can reach $10^3- 10^4$ for $T_{4c}\to \gamma\gamma$, and $10^5- 10^6$ for $T_{4c}\to {\rm LH}$, at the LHC. The detecting prospect is promising.Comment: 12 pages, 1 figures, 3 tables, errors in Eqs. (11c) and (12c) are corrected, numerical values in Tabs.(II) and (III) (for 0^++ channel) are slightly changed, all the conclusions do not chang