Possible triply heavy tetraquark states

Abstract

In the present work, the triply heavy tetraquarks states $QQ\bar{Q}\bar{q}$ with $Q=(c,b)$ and $q=(u,d,s)$ with all possible quantum numbers are systematically investigated in the framework of the chiral quark model with the resonance ground method. Two kinds of structures, including the meson-meson configuration (the color-singlet channels and the hidden-color channels) and the diquark-antidiquark configuration (the color sextet-antisextet and the color triplet-antitriplet), are considered. In the considered system, several bound states are obtained for the $cc\bar{c}\overline{q^{{}^{\prime }}}$, $bb\bar{c}\overline{q^{{}^{\prime }}}$ and $bc\bar{c}\bar{q}$ tetraquarks. From the present estimations, we find that the coupled channel effect is of great significance for forming the below thresholds tetraquark states, which are stable for strong decays.