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 …

Hadronic molecules

FK Guo, C Hanhart, UG Meißner, Q Wang, Q Zhao… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018‏ - APS
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 …

Multiquark resonances

A Esposito, A Pilloni, AD Polosa - Physics Reports, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Multiquark resonances are undoubtedly experimentally observed. The number of states and
the amount of details on their properties have been growing over the years. It is very recent …

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 …

The hidden-charm pentaquark and tetraquark states

HX Chen, W Chen, X Liu, SL Zhu - Physics Reports, 2016‏ - Elsevier
In the past decade many charmonium-like states were observed experimentally. Especially
those charged charmonium-like Z c states and bottomonium-like Z b states cannot be …

A review of the open charm and open bottom systems

HX Chen, W Chen, X Liu, YR Liu… - Reports on Progress in …, 2017‏ - iopscience.iop.org
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) …

Hadronic molecules in decays

HX Chen - Physical Review D, 2022‏ - APS
There are eighteen possibly existing D (*) D¯(*), D (*) K¯(*), and D (*) D s (*)-hadronic
molecular states. We construct their corresponding interpolating currents and calculate their …

Towards exotic hidden-charm pentaquarks in QCD

HX Chen, W Chen, X Liu, TG Steele, SL Zhu - Physical Review Letters, 2015‏ - APS
Inspired by P c (4380) and P c (4450) recently observed by LHCb, a QCD sum rule
investigation is performed, by which they can be identified as exotic hidden-charm …

[HTML][HTML] Hunting for exotic doubly hidden-charm/bottom tetraquark states

W Chen, HX Chen, X Liu, TG Steele, SL Zhu - Physics Letters B, 2017‏ - Elsevier
We develop a moment QCD sum rule method augmented by fundamental inequalities to
study the existence of exotic doubly hidden-charm/bottom tetraquark states made of four …

QCD sum rules approach to the X, Y and Z states

RM Albuquerque, JM Dias… - Journal of Physics G …, 2019‏ - iopscience.iop.org
In the past decade, due to the experimental observation of many charmonium-like states,
there has been a revival of hadron spectroscopy. In particular, the experimental observation …