QCD, Hadronic Spectrum and Exotics

by Dr Altug Ozpineci (Physics Department, Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

Wednesday 28 Oct 2015, 15:00 → 16:30 Asia/Tehran

Seminar Room (Larak)

Recent experimental discoveries of new hadrons have increased the interest in hadron spectroscopy. Hadrons bound states of quarks and gluons whose interactions are described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Quarks and gluons are confined into colorless bound states. The simplest two possible bound states are the bound states formed by a quark and an anti-quark and three (anti) quarks. These states are called conventional mesons and (anti) baryons respectively. The newly discovered hadrons are not easily described as conventional hadrons. In this talk, I will discuss the conventional hadrons and the success of QCD in explaining these states, followed by a discussion on the newly discovered exotic meson candidates.