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A Perspective on Pentaquarks

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Recent discoveries of manifestly exotic, narrow baryon resonances present a fundamental challenge for our theoretical understanding of low-energy QCD. This is a brief survey of their interpretation, emphasizing the possibility that diquark correlations are centrally involved. Many predictions and suggestions for future directions follow from that idea.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0401034,
  title  = {A Perspective on Pentaquarks},
  author = {Robert Jaffe and Frank Wilczek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0401034},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

8 pages; Plenary talk by FW at the European Physical Society, Aachen, August 2003; proposed operator for 1/2+ pentaquark lattice simulation corrected; references added