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 …

A large number of experimental discoveries especially in the heavy quarkonium sector that
did not meet the expectations of the until then very successful quark model led to a …

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}^{\ast}(2317) …

Motivated by the success of the flavour physics programme carried out over the last decade
at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we characterize in detail the physics potential of its High …

The inspiration for this book came from François le Diberder. During his term as
spokesperson for B 八 B 八 R he laid down a vision for the two B Factory detector …

A survey of the experimental, phenomenological, and theoretical status of the new heavy
mesons is presented. States discussed are the Bc, hc, ηc′, Ds (2317), Ds (2460), X (3872) …

Abstract Using 13.5 fb− 1 of e+ e− annihilation data collected with the CLEO II detector, we
have observed a narrow resonance decaying to D s*+ π 0 with a mass near 2.46 GeV/c 2 …

The LHCb Collaboration announced the observation of three narrow structures consistent
with hidden-charm pentaquark states. They are candidates of hadronic molecules formed of …

We discuss theoretical predictions for the existence of exotic (non-quark-model) mesons and
review prominent experimental candidates. These are especially the f0 (1500) and f0 (1710) …

We study the scattering of light pseudoscalar mesons (π, K) off charmed mesons (D, D s) in
full lattice QCD. The S-wave scattering lengths are calculated using Lüscher's finite volume …