A novel multiquark approach to hadron resonances

TL;DR

This paper introduces a new relativistic, renormalization-invariant approach to hadron spectroscopy based on the QCD energy-momentum tensor, offering novel classifications and interpretations of hadron resonances.

Contribution

It proposes a multiquark framework that classifies hadrons without orbital angular momentum, explaining Regge trajectories and scalar resonance properties.

Findings

Classifies hadrons in a periodic table-like scheme

Provides natural emergence of Regge and radial trajectories

Explains scalar resonance masses and decay modes

Abstract

A new approach to description of hadron spectroscopy is proposed. By assumption, the form of spectrum is dictated by the trace of energy momentum tensor in QCD. This provides the relativistic and renormalization invariance of hadron masses. The constructed scheme is applied to the light mesons for which two complementary interpretations are worked out. The first one represents an "atomic" structure of resonances above 1 GeV in which the quanta of non-perturbative gluon contributions are quantified via an effective formation of quasiparticles representing likely gluon analogues of positronium. This picture allows to build a "periodic table of the hadronic elements", i.e. to classify hadrons, in some sense, in analogy with Mendeleev table in chemistry. The classification does not require introduction of the orbital angular momentum associated with hadron constituents. The Regge and radial trajectories emerge in a natural way. The second interpretation is based on a "collisional" nature of some (or many) hadrons, specifically of scalar resonances below 1 GeV. Here the role of quasiparticles is played by another hadron. This picture in particular leads to a simple explanation of the puzzling scalar sector below 1 GeV with correct predictions for masses and dominant decay modes.