
TL;DR
This paper reviews the theoretical and experimental status of non-quark-antiquark mesons, including glueballs, hybrids, and four-quark states, emphasizing their significance in understanding QCD and recent discoveries of exotic mesons.
Contribution
It provides a pedagogical construction of an effective hadronic model of QCD and presents decay results for scalar and pseudoscalar glueballs, discussing future research directions.
Findings
Decay patterns of scalar and pseudoscalar glueballs analyzed.
Discussion on the nature of four-quark states in different energy domains.
Emphasis on the importance of glueball discovery for QCD validation.
Abstract
The vast majority of mesons can be understood as quark-antiquark states. Yet, various other possibilities exists: glueballs (bound-state of gluons), hybrids (quark-antiquark plus gluon), and four-quark states (either as diquark-antidiquark or molecular objects) are expected. In particular, the existence of glueballs represents one of the first predictions of QCD, which relies on the nonabelian feature of its structure; this is why the search for glueballs and their firm discovery would be so important, both for theoretical and experimental developments. At the same time, many new resonances ( and states) were discovered experimentally, some of which can be well understood as four-quark objects. In this lecture, we review some basic aspects of QCD and show in a pedagogical way how to construct an effective hadronic model of QCD. We then present the results for the decays of the…
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