Unexpected Mesons X, Y, Z, ... (tetraquarks? hadron molecules? ...)

Abstract

This talk briefly discusses the set of meson resonances discovered in the latest decade. They are frequently treated in the literature as tetraquarks or hadron molecules. Our consideration (using the energy-time uncertainty relation) suggests, however, that the most reasonable description for each of them may be a two- (or more-) component Fock column, with one line being a conventional quark-antiquark pair, and the other line(s) corresponding to a charmed (or beauty) meson-antimeson pair near its threshold. Detailed investigation of decay properties might allow to reveal presence of several Fock components and separate their contributions.

Comments: 5 pages, based on the invited talk at HSQCD-2014; to appear in Nucl. Phys. B Proceedings Suppl.; v2: more accurate formulation in Conclusions; v3: corrected style files