The hidden-charm pentaquark and tetraquark states
Abstract
In the past decade many charmonium-like states were observed experimentally. Especially those charged charmonium-like states and bottomonium-like states can not be accommodated within the naive quark model. These charged states are good candidates of either the hidden-charm tetraquark states or molecules composed of a pair of charmed mesons. Recently, the LHCb Collaboration discovered two hidden-charm pentaquark states, which are also beyond the quark model. In this work, we review the current experimental progress and investigate various theoretical interpretations of these candidates of the multiquark states. We list the puzzles and theoretical challenges of these models when confronted with the experimental data. We also discuss possible future measurements which may distinguish the theoretical schemes on the underlying structures of the hidden-charm multiquark states.
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@article{arxiv.1601.02092,
title = {The hidden-charm pentaquark and tetraquark states},
author = {Hua-Xing Chen and Wei Chen and Xiang Liu and Shi-Lin Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02092},
year = {2016}
}
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Review accepted by Physics Reports, 152 pages, 66 figures, and 29 tables