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The diabatic dynamical diquark model is designed to unify diquark and molecular approaches for exotic hadrons by including the effects of dimeson thresholds on fundamental diquark-antidiquark states in order to form physical tetraquarks. We generalize this model by implementing the consequences of heavy-quark spin symmetry for each dimeson pair. We include the specific spin factors and mass differences associated with mesons related by this symmetry (such as $D,D^{*}$ ), both features being necessary for the systematic incorporation of effects beyond the static, heavy-source limit inherent to the (adiabatic) Born-Oppenheimer treatment. We obtain explicit interaction potentials for all $J=0$ , 1, 2 states, along the way deriving unusual variants of Fierz reordering identities, and discuss the application of the potentials to specific physical states such as ${\chi }_{c1}\left(3872\right)$ and $T_{c\overline{c}1}\left(3900\right)$ . 

We generalize our recent analysis of hidden-strangeness tetraquarks within the dynamical diquark model from its adiabatic form (in which each state is described solely by a diquark-antidiquark potential) to its diabatic form (which incorporates effects of dihadron thresholds upon the states). We tabulate all relevant thresholds and compute the dihadron content of each predicted state. Our results produce no particular hidden-strange tetraquark candidate whose structure is dominated by dihadron structure, in contrast to the charm sector, where many exotic states are strongly associated with such thresholds: The hidden-strange states tend to remain compact and less influenced by dihadron thresholds. Multiple states above 2 GeV with peculiar decay properties, including $\varphi \left(2170\right)$ , $f_2\left(2340\right)$ , and $\eta \left(2370\right)$ , continue to serve as excellent hidden-strange tetraquark candidates. 

The dynamical diquark model describes multiquark exotic hadrons in terms of diquark components nucleated by heavy quarks and successfully explains multiple features of hidden-charm and hidden-bottom exotics. Here, we apply the model to the marginally heavy case of hidden-strange states to probe whether mesons near 2 GeV with peculiar properties, such as $\varphi \left(2170\right)$ , $f_2\left(2340\right)$ , and $X\left(2370\right)$ , are possible tetraquark candidates. We calculate spin-multiplet average masses using potentials obtained through lattice simulations and quark models, and we also describe the detailed spectra of the expected multiplets as a diagnostic to discern the nature of future hadrons likely to be discovered in this mass region by experiments at facilities such as BESIII, JLab, and the EIC. 

Using the diabatic formalism, a rigorous generalization of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, we study the effects of introducing simple meson-meson molecular potentials to an established diquark model for tetraquark states, and calculate mixed bound states composed of both diquark-antidiquark and meson-meson molecular components.We examine the behavior of properties of the states as one varies the parameters of the dimeson potential, and find that significant regions of parameter space occur in which one may produce mass eigenstates exactly matching the specific examples of χc1 and χc0. We also find regions in which a pure dimeson molecular state emerges, and study the same state properties in such cases. 

Using the diabatic formalism, which generalizes the adiabatic approximation in the Born-Oppen-heimer formalism, we apply well-known Hamiltonian methods to calculate the effect of open di-meson thresholds that lie well below the mass of elementary $c\overline{c}q{\overline{q}}^{\prime }$ , $c\overline{c}s\overline{s}$ , and $c\overline{c}q\overline{s}$ tetraquark bound states. We compute the resulting mass shifts for these states, as well as their decay widths to the corresponding meson pairs. Each mass eigenstate, originally produced using a bound-state approximation under the diabatic formalism, consists of an admixture of a compact diquark-antidiquark configuration (an eigenstate of the original dynamical diquark model) with an extended di-meson configuration induced by the nearest threshold. We compare our results with those from our recent work that employs a scattering formalism, and find a great deal of agreement, but also comment upon interesting discrepancies between the two approaches. Published by the American Physical Society2024 

A recent report of $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to D\overline{D}$ events by the BESIII collaboration suggests the presence of a structure $R$ at 3900 MeV. We argue that this structure, called $G\left(3900\right)$ in the past, is not in fact due to a new $c\overline{c}$ resonance but rather naturally emerges due to a combination of interference between nearby resonances and the opening of the $D^{*}\overline{D}$ channel. We further find that the appearance of this structure does not require suppression because of a radial node in the $\psi \left(4040\right)$ wave function, although a node improves fit quality. The measured $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ coupling of $\psi \left(4040\right)$ is found to be substantially smaller than previously estimated. In addition, we report new corrections to the measured cross section $\sigma (e^{+}{e}^{-}\to D\overline{D})$ at energies near $\psi \left(3770\right)$ . Published by the American Physical Society2024