Related papers: Exotic Charmonium at BESIII
The Beijing Electron Collider is being upgraded (BEPCII) to a two-ring collider with a design luminosity of $1 \times 10^{33}$cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of 3.89 GeV. It will operate between 2 and 4.2 GeV in the center of…
This report highlights the recent BESIII results related to the measurement of the $R$ value, radiative decays of $J/\psi$ and the polarization of $D^0 \to \omega \phi$ decay. BESIII, a symmetric electron-positron collider experiment, has…
One of the most intriguing puzzles in hadron spectroscopy are the numerous charmonium-like states observed in the last decade, including charged states that are manifestly exotic. Over the years, the experiment $BABAR$ has extensively…
The BESIII experiment has collected a large data sample of charmonium, charm mesons, hyperons, and other light mesons. These data provide a unique opportunity to explore the dark sector and rare decays. We present recent dark sector results…
Exotic charmonium and bottonomium resonances recently discovered are discussed and interpreted as diquark-antidiquark states containing a pair of charm quarks and a pair of light, up and down, quarks. Successes, shortcomings and predictions…
The BESIII collaboration has collected the world's largest datasets at the energy thresholds for producing a variety of open-charm hadrons. Most recently, the BESIII collaboration has collected datasets that significantly increase the…
We report a direct search for a new gauge boson, $X$, with a mass of $17~\text{MeV}/c^2$, which could explain the anomalous excess of $e^+e^-$ pairs observed in the $^8\text{Be}$ nuclear transitions. The search is conducted in the…
The Beijing Electron Collider has been upgraded (BEPCII) to a two-ring collider with a design luminosity of $1 \times 10^{33}$cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ at a center-of-mass energy of 3.78 GeV. It will operate between 2 and 4.6 GeV in the center of…
The next generation tau-charm factory, the third Beijing Electron Spectrometer (BESIII) at the new Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPCII), has begun data collection. I discuss the flavor physics reach of the BESIII charm program and…
Hadron spectroscopy is one of the most important physics goals of BESIII. BESIII brings great opportunities to study the XYZ states of charmonium by directly producing the Y states up to 4.6 GeV. High statistics of charmonium decays…
The BESIII experiment is currently the world's only electron-positron collider operating in the tau-charm physical energy region. Since starting data taking in 2009, BESIII has accumulated the world's largest data set in the center-of-mass…
We review recent studies on exotic states at the Belle experiment. The results include: (1) The measurement of the cross sections of $\gamma \gamma \to \omega \phi$, $\phi\phi$, and $\omega \omega$ for masses that range from threshold to…
Recently BESIII collaboration discovered a charged strange hidden-charm state $Z_{cs}$(3985) in the $D_s^-D^{*0} + D_s^{*-}D^{0}$ spectrum. A higher $Z'_{cs}$ state coupling to $\bar{D}_s^{*-}D^{*0}$ is expected by SU(3)-flavor symmetry,…
In the BESIII detector at Beijing electron positron collider, billions of events from $e^+e^-$ collisions were recorded. These events passing through the trigger system were saved in raw data format files. They play an important role in the…
A review of recent experimental developments concerning the $X$, $Y$ and $Z$ charmonium-like exotic states.
The discovery of numerous new charmonium-like structures since 2003 have revitalized interest in exotic meson spectroscopy. These structures do not fit easily into the conventional charmonium model, and proposals like four-quark states,…
The discovery of hadronic states beyond the conventional two-quark meson and three-quark baryon picture in the last two decades is one of the most amazing accomplishments in fundamental physics research. We review the experimental progress…
The BESIII experiment has collected 2.6 billion $\psi(3686)$ events, 10 billion events, 20 $fb^{-1}$ of $D$ meson pairs at 3.773 GeV, and 7.33 $fb^{-1}$ of $D_sD_s^*$ events from 4.128 to 4.226 GeV. These huge data samples allow us to…
We study e+e- --> pi+pi-h_c at center-of-mass energies from 3.90 GeV to 4.42 GeV using data samples collected with the BESIII detector operating at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider. The Born cross sections are measured at 13 energies,…
Exotic hadron states beyond the conventional $qqq$ baryon and $q\bar{q}$ meson configurations are well expected from QCD. Having been successful in the past decades, the heavy quarkonium sector is proved to be an ideal place for the study…