Seminar

Discovering Exotic Hadrons

By
Vincent Mathieu (Universidad Complutense Madrid & ICC-UB)
Date
Place
Zoom
seminar ICCUB
Beside quark-antiquark meson and three-quark baryons, quantum chromodynamics predicts that other types of quark and gluon configurations could bind into hadron resonances. During the last decade, a lot of theoretical and experimental efforts have been devoted to the search of tetraquark, pentaquark and hybrid mesons. Several candidates have been observed by experimental collaborations but the interpretation of these signals requires a joint collaboration between phenomenologists and experimentalists. In this talk, I'll review the challenges of discovering and interpreting exotic hadrons, with a particular attention to the lightest hybrid meson.