Strongly interacting particles, hadrons, have structure which is only qualitatively understood at present. The recent discovery of an exotic meson suggests that new spectroscopic studies may reveal previously unknown details of quark0gluon dynamics. Such states cannot be accommodated within the simple quark model of hadrons. Experiments are underway at Brookhaven National Laboratory to measure multi- particle decays of exotic mesons. Future experiments with photon beams will be carried out at Jefferson Laboratory.

Agency
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Institute
Division of Physics (PHY)
Application #
9803754
Program Officer
Bradley D. Keister
Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
1998-09-01
Budget End
2001-03-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1998
Total Cost
$310,000
Indirect Cost
Name
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Troy
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
12180