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A comprehensive summary of current research into multiquark hadrons, describing them in terms of constituent quarks, gluons and compact diquarks.
List of contents
Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. XYZ and Pc phenomenology; 3. Color forces and constituent quark model; 4. Hadron molecules; 5. Light scalar mesons; 6. Mass formulae for P-wave, qq mesons; 7. Compact tetraquarks; 8. The Xu Xd puzzle; 9. Y states as P-wave tetraquarks; 10. Pentaquark models; 11. Tetraquarks in large N QCD; 12. QCD sum rules and lattice QCD; 13. Phenomenology of beauty quark exotics; 14. Hidden heavy avour tetraquarks - overview; 15. Tetraquarks with double heavy quarks; 16. Outlook; Appendix A. Low energy p - n scattering amplitude; Appendix B. Wigner's 6-j symbols; References; Index.
About the author
Ahmed Ali is an Emeritus staff member in Theoretical Physics at the high-energy physics laboratory, Deutsches Elektronen-Sychrotron (DESY), Hamburg and an Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Hamburg. Working on the phenomenology of high-energy physics, his main research interests are flavor physics, QCD, and multiquark hadrons. He has worked as a scientific associate at CERN for several years and is also a fellow of the American Physical Society.Luciano Maiani is Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics at Sapienza University of Rome. He has been president of the Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), director-general of CERN in Geneva and president of the Italian National Council for Research (CNR). He is a member of the Italian Lincean Academy and a fellow of the American Physical Society.Antonio D. Polosa is Professor at the Department of Physics in Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza', Italy. His research focuses primarily exclusive heavy meson decays, high energy hadron collider physics and exotic hadron spectroscopy. He has held positions at the University of Helsinki, CERN, LAPP-TH and INFN-Rome.
Summary
A summary of research into multiquark hadrons, describing them in terms of constituent quarks, gluons and compact diquarks. Introducing the novel concept of compact diquarks as building blocks of matter and with broad appeal across high-energy physics, this work is pertinent to researchers focused on experiments, phenomenology or lattice QCD.
