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A Brief Guide to Exotic Hadrons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-02-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Exotic hadrons are a new class of hadronic states whose properties do not allow them to be classified as conventional quark-antiquark mesons or three quark baryons. Finding new and understanding established exotic states is the most important topic in today's hadron spectroscopy and a promising avenue to advance our knowledge on Quantum Chromodynamics in the non-perturbative regime. While several high-quality reviews on the topic exist, they are all at an advanced level. The present article aims to address new-comers to the field with a simple introduction to exotic hadrons with an emphasis on the experimental studies.

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@article{arxiv.2410.06923,
  title  = {A Brief Guide to Exotic Hadrons},
  author = {Nils Hüsken and Elisabetta Spadaro Norella and Ivan Polyakov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.06923},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

47 pages, 20 figures. to appear in MPLA (World Scientific)

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