A large number of experimental discoveries especially in the heavy quarkonium sector that did not at all fit to the expectations of the until then very successful quark model led to a renaissance of hadron spectroscopy Among various explanations of the internal structure of these excitations, hadronic molecules, being analogues of light nuclei, play a unique role since for those predictions can be made with controlled uncertainty We review experimental evidences of various candidates of hadronic molecules, and methods of identifying such structures Nonrelativistic effective field theories are the suitable framework for studying hadronic molecules, and are discussed in both the continuum and finite volumes Also pertinent lattice QCD results are presented Further, we discuss the production mechanisms and decays of hadronic molecules, and comment on the reliability of certain assertions often made in the literature

Hadronic molecules

This work is on the Physics of the B Factories. Part A of this book contains a brief description of the SLAC and KEK B Factories as well as their detectors, BaBar and Belle, and data taking related issues. Part B discusses tools and methods used by the experiments in order to obtain results. The results themselves can be found in Part C.

The Physics of the B Factories

The existence and properties of the sigma meson have been controversial for almost six decades, despite playing a central role in the spontaneous chiral symmetry of QCD or in the nucleon-nucleon attraction. This controversy has also been fed by the strong indications that it is not an ordinary quark-antiquark meson. Here we review both the recent and old experimental data and the model independent dispersive formalisms which have provided precise determinations of its mass and width, finally settling the controversy and leading to its new name: $f_0(500)$. We then provide a rather conservative average of the most recent and advanced dispersive determinations of its pole position $\sqrt{s_\sigma}=449^{+22}_{-16}-i(275\pm12)$. 
In addition, after comprehensive introductions, we will review within the modern perspective of effective theories and dispersion theory, its relation to chiral symmetry, unitarization techniques, its quark mass dependence, popular models, as well as the recent strong evidence, obtained from the QCD $1/N_c$ expansion or Regge theory, for its non ordinary nature in terms of quarks and gluons.

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From controversy to precision on the sigma meson: a review on the status of the non-ordinary $f_0(500)$ resonance

The quark model was formulated in 1964 to classify mesons as bound states made of a quark-antiquark pair, and baryons as bound states made of three quarks. For a long time all known mesons and baryons could be classified within this scheme. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), however, in principle also allows the existence of more complex structures, generically called exotic hadrons or simply exotics. These include four-quark hadrons (tetraquarks and hadronic molecules), five-quark hadrons (pentaquarks) and states with active gluonic degrees of freedom (hybrids), and even states of pure glue (glueballs). Exotic hadrons have been systematically searched for in numerous experiments for many years. Remarkably, in the past fifteen years, many new hadrons that do not exhibit the expected properties of ordinary (not exotic) hadrons have been discovered in the quarkonium spectrum. These hadrons are collectively known as $XYZ$ states. Some of them, like the charged states, are undoubtedly exotic. Parallel to the experimental progress, the last decades have also witnessed an enormous theoretical effort to reach a theoretical understanding of the $XYZ$ states. Theoretical approaches include not only phenomenological extensions of the quark model to exotics, but also modern non-relativistic effective field theories and lattice QCD calculations. The present work aims at reviewing the rapid progress in the field of exotic $XYZ$ hadrons over the past few years both in experiments and theory. It concludes with a summary on future prospects and challenges.

The $XYZ$ states: experimental and theoretical status and perspectives

From controversy to precision on the sigma meson: A review on the status of the non-ordinary f(0)(500) resonance

Dynamically generated 0+ heavy mesons in a heavy chiral unitary approach

Dynamically generated 1+ heavy mesons

Using the potentials derived from vector-meson-exchanges, the KK¯, DK, BK¯, DD¯,BB¯, BD, DK¯ , BKand BD¯ systems are studied. Possible S-wave bound-states of twopseudoscalar mesons are discussed. We ﬁnd that systems of DB, DD¯, BB¯ and DKwithisospin 0 are likely to form S-wavebound states via strong interactionswhile the othersareunlikely to be bound by the strong interaction sector alone. With the Coulomb potential,the K + K − system can form an atomic bound state - the kaonium. The inﬂuence of theone-meson-exchange potential on the ground state energy of the kaonium and its decaywidths to ππand πηare evaluated. 1 Introduction Since the 1970’s, the possible existence of the nuclear-like bound states of mesons has beenone of the interesting subjects in hadron physics. Some hardrons such as the ψ(4040) [1],η(1440) [2], f 1 (1420) [3], f J (1720) [4], and the f 0 (980) and a 0 (980) [5, 6, 7, 8] were explainedas the nuclear-like bound states of mesons. To¨rnqvist [9] argued that the one-pion-exchangepotential is likely to form a few states composed of two ground-state mesons. In 2003 the BelleCollaboration reported a new narrow charmonium state at 3872±0.6(stat)±0.5(syst) MeVand with a width <2.3MeV(95% C.L.), which has been conﬁrmed by several experiments[10, 11, 12, 13]. Almost immediately, To¨rnqvist [14] claimed that this state is the one hepredicted long ago. Indeed the proximity of the X to D

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Dynamically generated 0+ heavy mesons in a heavy chiral unitary approach

Dynamically generated 1+ heavy mesons

Possible S-wave Bound-States of Two Pseudoscalar Mesons

Unitary chiral dynamics in J/Psi -> VPP decays and the role of scalar mesons

S wave K pi scattering and effects of kappa in J/psi ->(K)over-bar*(0)(892)K+pi(-)