A review of the open charm and open bottom systems

TL;DR

This paper reviews the experimental discoveries and theoretical developments related to open charm and open bottom hadrons since their initial observation, highlighting key states and progress in understanding these heavy hadron systems.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the progress in experimental findings and theoretical models of open charm and bottom hadrons since 1976.

Findings

Discovery of key states like D_{s0}^*(2317) and D_{s1}(2460)

Progress in experimental detection of excited heavy hadrons

Advances in theoretical understanding of heavy hadron structures

Abstract

Since the discovery of the first charmed meson in 1976, many open-charm and open-bottom hadrons were observed. In 2003 two narrow charm-strange states $D_{s0}^*(2317)$ and $D_{s1}(2460)$ were discovered by the BaBar and CLEO Collaborations, respectively. After that, more excited heavy hadrons were reported. In this work, we review the experimental and theoretical progress in this field.