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Title: Delta, iota and other meson spectroscopies

Conference ·
OSTI ID:5313371

This talk is given from the point of view of an experimentalist. Meson spectroscopy in the 1 to 3 GeV region is interesting because experiments exploring this region, in particular radiative psi decay, have found a rich structure of resonances too complicated to unravel with any one experiment, and not easily interpreted with any one theoretical model. None of the theoretical calculations predicting all kinds of interesting and exotic objects in this region is very convincing or reliable. Additional input from anti pp annihilation can be very useful in helping to find the answers to the following open questions: what exactly is this spectrum, what are the masses and quantum numbers of the resonances, as determined from analysis of data without theoretical prejudices; how is this spectrum described by QCD, is there evidence for new kinds of states like glue-balls, hybrids, axions, Higgses or multiquark exotics, and is there any evidence for new physics beyond QCD. 20 refs.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31-109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
5313371
Report Number(s):
ANL-HEP-CP-86-29; CONF-8604201-5; ON: DE86014577
Resource Relation:
Conference: Antimatter physics at low energies, Batavia, IL, USA, 10 Apr 1986; Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English