Theoretical Overview: The New Mesons

Abstract

After commenting on the state of contemporary hadronic physics and spectroscopy, I highlight four areas where the action is: searching for the relevant degrees of freedom, mesons with beauty and charm, chiral symmetry and the D_{sJ} levels, and X(3872) and the lost tribes of charmonium.

10 pages, uses jpconf.cls; talk at First Meeting of the APS Topical Group on Hadronic Physics

References in corpus (19)

• Reinterpreting several narrow `resonances' as threshold cusps
• Is X(3872) a possible candidate of hybrid meson
• Heavy quark spin selection rule and the properties of the X(3872)
• Mass of D*_sJ(2317) and Coupled Channel Effect
• The X(3872) at CDF II
• Are There Diquarks in the Nucleon?
• Reviewing the Evidence for Pentaquarks
• The Lost Tribes of Charmonium
• An Experimental Review of the ${\Theta }^{+}$ Pentaquark
• Higher Charmonium
• Toward dynamical understanding of the diquarks, pentaquarks and dibaryons
• New Results From CLEO and BES
• Search for X(3872) in gamma gamma Fusion and ISR at CLEO
• Towards an Understanding of the New Charm and Charm-Strange Mesons
• New Particles from Belle
• Properties of the DsJ states
• Evidence for hc Production from psi-prime at CLEO
• Beyond CP violation: hadronic physics at BaBar
• Charmed Meson Spectroscopy

Cited by in corpus (3)

• From the Kappa via the Ds0*(2317) to the chi_c0: connecting light and heavy scalar mesons
• Calculating loops without loop calculations: NLO computation of pentaquark correlators
• New Particles from Belle