https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-5297-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Exotic tetraquark states with the 
configuration
1
School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
2
Research Center for Hadron and CSR Physics, Lanzhou University and Institute of Modern Physics of CAS, Lanzhou, 730000, China
3
School of Physics and Key Laboratory of Particle Physics and Particle Irradiation (MOE), Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China
4
School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
5
Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, 100871, China
6
Center of High Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
* e-mail: yrliu@sdu.edu.cn
Received:
31
August
2017
Accepted:
10
October
2017
Published online:
25
October
2017
In this work, we study systematically the mass splittings of the (
, d, s and 
, b) tetraquark states with the color-magnetic interaction by considering color mixing effects and estimate roughly their masses. We find that the color mixing effect is relatively important for the 
states and possible stable tetraquarks exist in the 
(
, d) and 
systems either with 
or with 
. Possible decay patterns of the tetraquarks are briefly discussed.
© The Author(s), 2017
