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The hidden-charm pentaquark and tetraquark states

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-20 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In the past decade many charmonium-like states were observed experimentally. Especially those charged charmonium-like ZcZ_c states and bottomonium-like ZbZ_b states can not be accommodated within the naive quark model. These charged ZcZ_c 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}
}

Comments

Review accepted by Physics Reports, 152 pages, 66 figures, and 29 tables