Front. Phys. 10, 101401 (2015) DOI 10.1007/s11467-014-0449-6 REVIEW ARTICLE A new hadron spectroscopy
Stephen Lars Olsen
Center for Underground Physics, Institute of Basic Science, Daejeon 305-811, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Received August 13, 2014; accepted September 16, 2014
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. Keywords quarks, charmonium, pentaquarks, di-baryons, baryonium, tetraquarks PACS numb ers 14.40.Gx, 12.39.Mk, 13.20.He
Contents gluons are related to mesons and baryons by the long- distance regime of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), 1 Introduction 1 which remains the least understood aspect of the the- 2 Pentaquarks and H-dibaryons 2 ory. Since first-principle lattice-QCD (LQCD) calcula- 2.1 Belle H-dibaryon search 2 tions are still not practical for most long-distance phe- 3Whatwedosee 3 nomena, a number of models motivated by the color 3.1 Baryonium in radiative J/ψ → γpp¯ decays? 4 structure of QCD have been proposed. However, so far 3.2 The XYZ mesons 4 at least, predictions of these QCD-motivated models that 3.2.1 Charmoniumlike mesons 4 pertain to the spectrum of hadrons have not had great 3.2.2 Bottomoniumlike mesons 22 success. 3.3 Comments 24 For example, it is well known that combining a q = 3.3.1 Molecules? 25 u, d, s light-quark triplet with aq ¯ =¯u, d,¯ s¯ antiquark an- 3.3.2 Tetraquarks? 28 titriplet gives the familiar meson octet of flavor-SU(3). 3.3.3 QCD-hybrids? 28 Using similar considerations based on QCD, two quark 3.3.4 Hadrocharmonium? 28 triplets can be combined to form a “diquark” antitriplet 3.3.5 A unified model? 29 of antisymmetric qq states and a sextet of symmetric 4 Summary 29 states as illustrated in Fig. 1(a). In QCD, these diquarks Acknowledgements 30 have color: combining a red triplet with a blue triplet – as References and notes 30 shown in the figure – produces a magenta (anti-green) di- quark and, for the antisymmetric triplet configurations, 1 Introduction the color force between the two quarks is expected to be attractive. Likewise, green-red and blue-green diquarks The strongly interacting particles of the Standard Model form yellow (anti-blue) and cyan (anti-red) antitriplets are colored quarks and gluons. In contrast, the strongly asshowninFig.1(b). interacting particles in nature are color-singlet (i.e., Since these diquarks are not color-singlets, they can- white) mesons and baryons. In the theory, quarks and not exist as free particles but, on the other hand, the