XYZ-SU3 breakings from Laplace sum rules at higher orders

Abstract

We present new compact integrated expressions of SU3 breaking corrections to QCD spectral functions of heavy–light molecules and four-quark [Formula: see text]-like states at lowest order (LO) of perturbative (PT) QCD and up to [Formula: see text] condensates of the Operator Product Expansion (OPE). Including next-to-next-to-leading order (N2LO) PT corrections in the chiral limit and next-to-leading order (NLO) SU3 PT corrections, which we have estimated by assuming the factorization of the four-quark spectral functions, we improve previous LO results for the [Formula: see text]-like masses and decay constants from QCD spectral sum rules (QSSR). Systematic errors are estimated from a geometric growth of the higher order PT corrections and from some partially known [Formula: see text] nonperturbative contributions. Our optimal results, based on stability criteria, are summarized in Tables 18–21 while the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] channels are compared with some existing LO results in Table 22. One can note that, in most channels, the SU3 corrections on the meson masses are tiny: [Formula: see text] (respectively [Formula: see text]) for the [Formula: see text] (respectively [Formula: see text])-quark channel but can be large for the couplings ([Formula: see text]). Within the lowest dimension currents, most of the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] states are below the physical thresholds while our predictions cannot discriminate a molecule from a four-quark state. A comparison with the masses of some experimental candidates indicates that the [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] might have a large [Formula: see text] molecule component while an interpretation of the [Formula: see text] candidates as four-quark ground states is not supported by our findings. The [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] are compatible with the [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] molecules and/or with the axial-vector [Formula: see text] four-quark ground state. Our results for the [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text] and for different beauty states can be tested in the future data. Finally, we revisit our previous estimates1 for the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] and present new results for the [Formula: see text].