The ExoHad Collaboration


The Exo(tic) Had(ron) Collaboration started in 2023 to explore all aspects of exotic hadron physics, from predictions within lattice QCD, through reliable extraction of their existence and properties from experimental data, to descriptions of their structure within phenomenological models.

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A Constituent Model of Light Hybrid Meson Decays


The discovery of hybrid mesons will be greatly simplified if their couplings to decay channels are understood. To this end, Christian Farina (Pitt graduate student) and
Eric Swanson (Pitt, co-PI), have modeled hybrid decay in terms of gluon dissociation as specified by the Hamiltonian of QCD in Coulomb gauge. The results indicate that direct observation of the light vector hybrid will be difficult, that the hybrid $\pi(1800)$ has distinct decay characteristics, and that a hybrid $\eta_1(1750)$ Read more