Hadronic molecules

Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, Ulf-G. Meißner, Qian Wang, Qiang Zhao, and Bing-Song Zou
Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 015004 – Published 8 February 2018; Erratum Rev. Mod. Phys. 94, 029901 (2022)

Abstract

A large number of experimental discoveries especially in the heavy quarkonium sector that did not meet the expectations of the until then very successful quark model led to a renaissance of hadron spectroscopy. Among various explanations of the internal structure of these excitations, hadronic molecules, being analogs of light nuclei, play a unique role since for those predictions can be made with controlled uncertainty. Experimental evidence of various candidates of hadronic molecules and methods of identifying such structures are reviewed. Nonrelativistic effective field theories are the suitable framework for studying hadronic molecules and are discussed in both the continuum and finite volumes. Also pertinent lattice QCD results are presented. Further, the production mechanisms and decays of hadronic molecules are discussed and comments are given on the reliability of certain assertions often made in the literature.

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  • Received 4 May 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.90.015004

© 2018 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Nuclear PhysicsParticles & Fields

Erratum

Erratum: Hadronic molecules [Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 015004 (2018)]

Feng-Kun Guo, Christoph Hanhart, Ulf-G. Meißner, Qian Wang, Qiang Zhao, and Bing-Song Zou
Rev. Mod. Phys. 94, 029901 (2022)

Authors & Affiliations

Feng-Kun Guo*

  • CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Christoph Hanhart

  • Institute for Advanced Simulation, Institut für Kernphysik and Jülich Center for Hadron Physics, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Ulf-G. Meißner

  • Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen-und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, D-53115 Bonn, Germany and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Institut für Kernphysik and Jülich Center for Hadron Physics, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany

Qian Wang§

  • Helmholtz-Institut für Strahlen-und Kernphysik and Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics, Universität Bonn, D-53115 Bonn, Germany

Qiang Zhao

  • Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China, School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China, and Theoretical Physics Center for Science Facilities, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

Bing-Song Zou

  • CAS Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China

  • *fkguo@itp.ac.cn
  • c.hanhart@fz-juelich.de
  • meissner@hiskp.uni-bonn.de
  • §wangqian@hiskp.uni-bonn.de
  • zhaoq@ihep.ac.cn
  • zoubs@itp.ac.cn

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Vol. 90, Iss. 1 — January - March 2018

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