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354 citations · 3.3k across the 59 of their papers we have counts for

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59 papers

hep-ex2015★ 6 cited

Interpretation of Scalar and axial mesons in LHCb from an historical perspective

F. E. Close, A. Kirk

LHCb measurements of are shown to be consistent with historical data on scalar and axial mesons below 2 GeV. This is in contrast to some recent interpretations…

hep-ph2010★ 58 cited

Novel Charmonium and Bottomonium Spectroscopies due to Deeply Bound Hadronic Molecules from Single Pion Exchange

Frank Close, Clark Downum, Christopher E. Thomas

Pion exchange in S-wave between hadrons that are themselves in a relative S-wave is shown to shift energies by hundreds of MeV, leading to deeply bound quasi-molecular states. In t…

hep-ph2009★ 59 cited

On the possibility of Deeply Bound Hadronic Molecules from single Pion Exchange

Frank Close, Clark Downum

Pion exchange in S-wave between hadrons that are themselves in a relative S-wave can shift energies by hundreds of MeV. In the case of charmed mesons a spectroscopy…

hep-ph2008★ 4 cited

Charmonium production in e+e- to ψ+ X(c\bar c) and e+e- to D*D_J

Frank Close, Clark Downum

The dominance of chi_0 in the data for e+e- to psi + chi_J(c\bar{c}) is shown to violate OZI factorization. Single gluon exchange gives a non-factorizing effective S.L interaction…

hep-ph2008★ 197 cited

Is X(3872) a molecule?

C. E. Thomas, F. E. Close

We show that the literature on pion exchange between charm and bottom mesons is inconsistent. We derive the formalism explicitly, expose differences between papers in the literatur…

hep-ph2008★ 68 cited

Search for tetraquark candidate Z(4430) in meson photoproduction

Xiao-Hai Liu, Qiang Zhao, Frank E. Close

We propose a search for the newly discovered tetraquark candidate Z(4430) in photoproduction. Based on the Belle results we show that if Z(4430) is a genuine resonance, its signifi…