G. V. Pakhlova, P. N. Pakhlov, S. I. Eidel'man, “Exotic charmonium”, UFN, 2010, Volume 180, Number 3,Pages <nobr>225

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Exotic charmonium

G. V. Pakhlova^a, P. N. Pakhlov^a, S. I. Eidel'man^b

^a Russian Federation State Scientific Center "A. I. Alikhanov Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics"
^b G I. Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The most significant results on the spectroscopy, production and decay of charmonium and charmonium-like states are reviewed. The surprise-filled physics of charmonium is currently attracting a lot of experimental and theoretical attention. Unexpected properties exhibited by numerous discovered states fail to be explained by current theory which claims instead the existence in the spectra of charmonium-like particles of exotic systems different from usual bound states.

PACS: 12.38.Qk, 13.66.Bc, 14.40.Pq, 14.40.Rt

Received: September 7, 2009

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0180.201003a.0225