Light Hadron Spectroscopy at BEPC

Abstract

The $J/\Psi$ and ${\Psi }^{\prime }$ experiments at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider (BEPC) play a unique role in many aspects of light hadron spectroscopy, such as hunting for glueballs and hybrids, extracting $u\bar{u}+d\bar{d}$ and $s\bar{s}$ components of mesons, and studying excited nucleons and hyperons, i.e., $N^{\ast }$, ${\Lambda }^{\ast }$, ${\Sigma }^{\ast }$ and ${\Xi }^{\ast }$ resonances. Physics objectives, recent results and future prospects of light hadron spectroscopy at BEPC are presented.

Comments: Postscript file, 10 pages. Invited talk at Low Energy Antiproton Physics Conference (LEAP2000), Venice, Italy, August, 2000