Electron-ion collider in China

DP Anderle, V Bertone, X Cao, L Chang, N Chang… - Frontiers of …, 2021 - Springer
Lepton scattering is an established ideal tool for studying inner structure of small particles
such as nucleons as well as nuclei. As a future high energy nuclear physics project, an …

Pentaquark and tetraquark states

YR Liu, HX Chen, W Chen, X Liu, SL Zhu - Progress in Particle and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The past seventeen years have witnessed tremendous progress on the experimental and
theoretical explorations of the multiquark states. The hidden-charm and hidden-bottom …

A survey of heavy-antiheavy hadronic molecules

XK Dong, FK Guo, BS Zou - arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.01021, 2021 - arxiv.org
Many efforts have been made to reveal the nature of the overabundant resonant structures
observed by the worldwide experiments in the last two decades. Hadronic molecules attract …

Chiral perturbation theory for heavy hadrons and chiral effective field theory for heavy hadronic molecules

L Meng, B Wang, GJ Wang, SL Zhu - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Chiral symmetry and its spontaneous breaking play an important role both in the light
hadron and heavy hadron systems. The chiral perturbation theory (χ PT) is the low energy …

Threshold cusps and triangle singularities in hadronic reactions

FK Guo, XH Liu, S Sakai - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
The spectrum of hadrons is the manifestation of color confinement of quantum
chromodynamics. Hadronic resonances correspond to poles of the S-matrix. Since 2003 …

Three ways to decipher the nature of exotic hadrons: multiplets, three-body hadronic molecules, and correlation functions

MZ Liu, YW Pan, ZW Liu, TW Wu, JX Lu, LS Geng - Physics Reports, 2025 - Elsevier
In the past two decades, a plethora of hadronic states beyond the conventional quark model
of qq ̄ mesons and qqq baryons have been observed experimentally, which motivated …

Establishing the first hidden-charm pentaquark with strangeness

HX Chen, W Chen, X Liu, XH Liu - The European Physical Journal C, 2021 - Springer
We study the P cs (4459) 0 recently observed by LHCb using the method of QCD sum rules.
Our results support its interpretation as the D¯∗ Ξ c hadronic molecular state of either JP …

Heavy quark spin symmetric molecular states from and other coupled channels in the light of the recent LHCb pentaquarks

CW Xiao, J Nieves, E Oset - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We consider the D¯(*) Σ c (*) states, together with J/ψ N and other coupled channels, and
take an interaction consistent with heavy quark spin symmetry, with the dynamical input …

Interpretation of the LHCb States as Hadronic Molecules and Hints of a Narrow

ML Du, V Baru, FK Guo, C Hanhart, UG Meißner… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
Three hidden-charm pentaquark P c states, P c (4312), P c (4440), and P c (4457) were
revealed in the Λ b 0→ J/ψ p K-process measured by LHCb using both run I and run II data …

Systematics of the heavy flavor hadronic molecules

K Chen, R Chen, L Meng, B Wang, SL Zhu - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
With a quark level interaction, we give a unified description of the loosely bound molecular
systems composed of the heavy flavor hadrons (D¯, D¯∗),(Λ c, Σ c, Σ c∗), and (Ξ c, Ξ c′, Ξ …