Progress and Issues in Hadronic Theory

Abstract

A brief review of progress and issues in hadronic theory and phenomenology is presented. New results for the $X(3872)$, $Z_c(3900)$, and $Z_c(4020)$ are discussed and unresolved issues are highlighted. A series of open problems in pQCD, NRQCD, and general phenomenology is given. It is argued that these indicate that the current understanding of hadronic dynamics is poor. In particular old ideas about quark annihilation and factorisation appear to be incorrect, pQCD looks limited in scope, and the convergence of some NRQCD computations appears jeapardised by the relative lightness of the charm quark mass.

7 pages. To appear in the Proceedings of Hadron 2013, Nara, Japan

References in corpus (5)

• Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure Z_c(4020) and search for the Z_c(3900) in e+e- to pi+pi-h_c
• Observation of a charged charmoniumlike structure in $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to (D^{\ast }{\bar{D}}^{\ast }{)}^{\pm }{\pi }^{\mp }$ at $\sqrt{s}=4.26$GeV
• Observation of $e^{+}{e}^{-}\to \gamma X(3872)$ at BESIII
• Measurement of $J/\psi$ polarization in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$ TeV
• Complete next-to-leading-order study on the yield and polarization of Upsilon(1S,2S,3S) at the Tevatron and LHC