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arxiv: 1203.1123 · v1 · pith:45JN46MHnew · submitted 2012-03-06 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Too many X's, Y's and Z's?

classification ✦ hep-ph nucl-th
keywords abovebeenmesonnumberspectroscopythresholdscalledchannels
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A large number of new states have been reported during the last few years in charmonium spectroscopy above the charmed meson production threshold. They have been called $X's$, $Y's$, and $Z's$. We reflect on the influence of thresholds on heavy meson spectroscopy comparing different flavor sectors and quantum numbers. The validity of a quark-model picture above open-flavor thresholds would severely restrict the number of channels that may lodge meson-meson molecules.

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