TY - EJOUR AU - Baeza Ballesteros, Jorge AU - Hernández, Pilar AU - Romero-López, Fernando TI - Results on meson-meson scattering at large N<sub>c</sub> IS - arXiv:2501.19115 M1 - PUBDB-2025-01100 M1 - arXiv:2501.19115 M1 - DESY-25-018 M1 - MIT-CTP/5834 PY - 2025 N1 - 11 pages, 5 figures. Talk presented at the 41st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice2024), 28 July - 3 August 2024, Liverpool, UK AB - We present results on the large N<sub>\text</sub>c scaling of meson-meson scattering amplitudes. We work in a theory with N<sub>\text</sub>f=4 degenerate quark flavors and run lattice simulations with N<sub>\text</sub>c=3−6 and pion mass M<sub>π</sub> ≈ 590 MeV. We focus on three different scattering channels, two of which have the same quantum numbers as some tetraquark candidates recently found at LHCb. Finite-volume energies are extracted using a large set of operators, containing two-particle operators corresponding to two pions or two vector mesons, and local tetraquark operators. Using Lüscher's quantization condition, we constrain the infinite-volume scattering amplitudes and investigate subleading N<sub>\text</sub>c corrections to the large N<sub>\text</sub>c limit. For one of the channels, we find indications of a virtual bound state at N<sub>\text</sub>c=3, which may be related to one of the aforementioned exotic states. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)25 DO - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2025-01100 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/625326 ER -