Snowmass white paper: Need for amplitude analysis in the discovery of new hadrons
Miguel Albaladejo🇪🇸 · Marco Battaglieri🇮🇹 · Lukasz Bibrzycki🇵🇱 · Andrea Celentano🇮🇹 · Igor V. Danilkin🇩🇪 · Sebastian M. Dawid🇺🇸 · Michael Doring🇺🇸 · Cristiano Fanelli🇺🇸 · Cesar Fernandez-Ramirez🇪🇸 · Sergi Gonzalez-Solis🇺🇸 · Astrid N. Hiller Blin🇩🇪 · Andrew W. Jackura🇺🇸 and 13 other authors
We highlight the need for the development of comprehensive amplitude analysis methods to further our understanding of hadron spectroscopy. Reaction amplitudes constrained by first principles of -matrix theory and by QCD phenomenology are needed to extract robust interpretations of the data from experiments and from lattice calculations.