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The COMPASS experiment at CERN SPS features charged particle tracking as well as good coverage by electromagnetic calorimetry, and our data provide an excellent opportunity for simultaneous observation of new states in different decay modes…

We extend the concept of classicality in quantum optics to spin states. We call a state ``classical'' if its density matrix can be decomposed as a weighted sum of angular momentum coherent states with positive weights. Classical spin states…

We study the decay Omega^- -> Xi^- pi^+ pi^- in heavy-baryon chiral perturbation theory. At leading order, the decay is completely dominated by the Xi^{*0}(1530) intermediate state, and the predicted rate and Xi^-pi^+ mass distribution are…

The BESIII experiment at BEPCII at IHEP in Beijing/China has collected the world largest data sets in the $\tau$-charm region and it is well suited to cover a rich hadron physics programme, including charmonium and open-charm spectroscopy,…

The results of searches for the strange pentaquark states, Theta(1540)+, Xi(1860)-- and Xi(1860)0 in data recorded by the BABAR experiment are presented. We search for these three states inclusively in 123.4 fb^-1 of e+ e- annihilation data…

Assuming four-quark structure for the $X$ resonances in low-lying region, we calculate their masses using the color-spin interaction. In specific, the hyperfine masses of the color-spin interaction are calculated for the possible states in…

Recently a $J^{PC}=0^{++}$ (X(1812)) state with a mass near the threshold of $\omega$ and $\phi$ has been observed by the BES collaboration in $J/\psi \to \gamma \omega \phi$ decay. It has been suggested that it is a $I^G = 0^+$ state. If…

In this paper, we construct eight pairs of hexaquark currents to search the $\Lambda_c\Sigma_c$ and $\bar{\Lambda}_c\Sigma_c$ dibaryon states via QCD sum rules. We show that the two currents of each pair are equivalent and we choose one of…

After constructing the possible $J^P=0^-, 0^+, 1^-$ and $1^+$ $QQ\bar{q}\bar{q}$ tetraquark interpolating currents in a systematic way, we investigate the two-point correlation functions and extract the corresponding masses with the QCD sum…

I review some selected aspects of the phenomenology of multiquark states discovered in high energy experiments. They have four valence quarks (called tetraquarks) and two of them are found to have five valence quarks (called pentaquarks),…

$K^+K^-\pi^+\pi^-\pi^0$ final states are studied using a sample of $14\times10^6$ $\psi(2S)$ decays collected with the Beijing Spectrometer (BESII) at the Beijing Electron-Position Collider. The branching fractions of $\psi(2S)$ decays to $…

The ${{\Xi}_{b}^{0(-)}\to{\Xi}_{c}(3055)^{+(0)}(\to D^{+(0)}{\Lambda}){\pi}^{-}}$ decay chains are observed, and the spin-parity of ${\Xi}_{c}(3055)^{+(0)}$ baryons is determined for the first time. The measurement is performed using…

The separable mixed 2-qubit X-states are classified in accordance with degeneracies in the spectrum of density matrices. It is shown that there are four classes of separable X-states, among them: one 4D family, a pair of 2D family and a…

The vast majority of mesons can be understood as quark-antiquark states. Yet, various other possibilities exists: glueballs (bound-state of gluons), hybrids (quark-antiquark plus gluon), and four-quark states (either as diquark-antidiquark…

A multichannel calculation of excited $J^{PC}=1^{--}$ $\phi$ states is carried out within a generalization of the Resonance-Spectrum Expansion, which may shed light on the classification of the $\phi(2170)$ resonance, discovered by BABAR…

We present an inclusive search for strange pentaquark production in e+e- interactions at a center-of-mass energy of 10.58 GeV using 123 fb-1 of data collected with the BaBar detector. We look for the states that have been reported…

Motivated by the observation of the $J^P = 1^+$ resonance $X(2085)$ in the $p\bar{\Lambda}$ system by the BESIII collaboration, we studied the molecular states of hexaquarks $p\bar{\Lambda}$ and $p\bar{\Sigma}$ with baryon-antibaryon…

The spectroscopy of $\Xi^0$ is performed within the relativistic framework of independent quark model. The equal mixture of scalar and vector components in the potential having Martin-like form is considered for the confinement. With the…

Based on a sample of $(10087 \pm 44) \times 10^6$ $J/\psi$ events collected with the BESIII detector at BEPCII, we report the first observation of the decay $J/\psi \rightarrow K^- \Sigma^0 \bar{\Xi}^++c.c.$. A partial wave analysis is…

We give an explicit QCD sum rule investigation to hidden-charm baryonium states with the quark content $u\bar u d\bar d c\bar c$, spin $J=0/1/2/3$, and of both positive and negative parities. We systematically construct the relevant local…