https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12847-x
Letter
Production of fully-heavy tetraquark states through the double parton scattering mechanism in pp and pA collisions
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Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Campus Universitário de Ondina, 40170-115, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2
Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão, 1371, CEP 05508-090, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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Departamento de Ciências Exatas e da Terra, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Campus Diadema, Rua Prof. Artur Riedel, 275, Jd. Eldorado, 09972-270, Diadema, SP, Brazil
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Straße 9, 48149, Münster, Germany
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Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Federal University of Pelotas, Postal Code 354, 96010-900, Pelotas, RS, Brazil
Received:
26
June
2023
Accepted:
22
April
2024
Published online:
7
May
2024
The production of fully-heavy tetraquark states in proton–proton (pp) and proton–nucleus (pA) collisions at the center-of-mass energies of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and at the Future Circular Collider (FCC) is investigated considering that these states are produced through the double parton scattering mechanism. We estimate the cross sections for the 
and 
states and present predictions for pp, pCa and pPb collisions considering the rapidity ranges covered by central and forward detectors. We demonstrate that the cross sections for pA collisions are enhanced in comparison to the pp predictions scaled by the atomic number. Moreover, our results indicate that a search of these exotic states is, in principle, feasible in the future runs of the LHC and FCC.
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