RUI: Search for Exotic Mesons

这项为期三年的RUI助学金支持一名教员和两名本科生/研究生(仅限暑期)参加布鲁克海文国家实验室AGS使用多粒子光谱仪(MPS)进行的研究。该实验将寻找在一个简单的夸克/反夸克介子模型中不允许量子数的OexoticO态。这种状态的例子是胶球或具有夸克/反夸克对的胶球的混合态。核物理界对介子和重子能谱的兴趣与日俱增，这项研究位于粒子和核物理领域之间。

This three-year RUI grant supports the research of a faculty member, and two undergraduate students/graduate student (summer only) to participate in research at the Brookhaven National Laboratory AGS using the Multi-Particle Spectrometer (MPS). The experiment will search for OexoticO states with quantum numbers not allowed in a simple quark/anti-quark mesonic model. Examples of such states are glueballs or hybrid states of a glueball with a quark/anti- quark pair. There is an increasing interest within the nuclear physics community in meson and baryon spectroscopy, and this research lies at the interface between the fields of particle and nuclear physics.