How the Zc(3900) Reveals the Spectra of Quarkonium Hybrid and Tetraquark Mesons
Abstract
Flavor-exotic tetraquark mesons have recently been observed in the heavy-quark pair sectors of QCD, including two isospin multiplets in the b b-bar sector, Zb(10610) and Zb(10650), and one isospin multiplet in the c c-bar sector, Zc(3900). We identify Zb and Zc as tetraquark mesons that are analogs of quarkonium hybrids with the gluon field replaced by an isospin-1 excitation of the light-quark fields. Given the identification of Y(4260) and Zc(3900) as a ground-state charmonium hybrid and tetraquark, respectively, lattice QCD calculations of the charmonium spectrum can be used to estimate the masses of the lowest four spin-symmetry multiplets of charmonium hybrids and tetraquarks. The Zb(10610) and Zb(10650) can be assigned to excited-state multiplets of bottomonium tetraquarks, resulting in estimates of the masses of the ground-state multiplets of bottomonium hybrids and tetraquarks.
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