QCD-motivated models for hadrons predict an assortment of ＂exotic＂ hadrons that have structures that are more complex than the quark-antiquark mesons and three-quark baryons of the original quark-parton model. These...QCD-motivated models for hadrons predict an assortment of ＂exotic＂ hadrons that have structures that are more complex than the quark-antiquark mesons and three-quark baryons of the original quark-parton model. These include pentaquark baryons： the six-quark H-dibaryon~ and tetraquark, hybrid and glueball mesons. Despite extensive experimental searches, no unambiguous candidates for any of these exotic configurations have been identified. On the other hand, a number of meson states, one that seems to be a proton-antiproton bound state, and others that contain either charmed- anticharmed quark pairs or bottom-antibottom quark pairs, have been recently discovered that neither fit into the quark-antiquark meson picture nor match the expected properties of the QCD- inspired exotics. Here I briefly review results from a recent search for the H-dibaryon, and discuss some properties of the newly discovered states -the proton-antiproton state and the so-called XYZ mesons- and compare them with expectations for conventional quark-antiquark mesons and the predicted QCD-exotic states.展开更多
基金The project supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 90103019, 10375003 and 10421503, the Doctoral Program Foundation of Institution of Higher Education under Grant No. KJCX2-SW-N10. S.L. Zhu thanks B.A. Li for very helpful criticism and N. Kochelev and X.G. He for useful discussions.
文摘QCD-motivated models for hadrons predict an assortment of ＂exotic＂ hadrons that have structures that are more complex than the quark-antiquark mesons and three-quark baryons of the original quark-parton model. These include pentaquark baryons： the six-quark H-dibaryon~ and tetraquark, hybrid and glueball mesons. Despite extensive experimental searches, no unambiguous candidates for any of these exotic configurations have been identified. On the other hand, a number of meson states, one that seems to be a proton-antiproton bound state, and others that contain either charmed- anticharmed quark pairs or bottom-antibottom quark pairs, have been recently discovered that neither fit into the quark-antiquark meson picture nor match the expected properties of the QCD- inspired exotics. Here I briefly review results from a recent search for the H-dibaryon, and discuss some properties of the newly discovered states -the proton-antiproton state and the so-called XYZ mesons- and compare them with expectations for conventional quark-antiquark mesons and the predicted QCD-exotic states.
