JOINT PARTICLE SEMINAR

Date: Wednesday, 3 March 2004 Time: 3:00 p.m.

Place: 4135 Frederick Reines Hall

Speaker: Harry Lipkin, SLAC

Title: What can QCD teach us about the Pentaquark and Vice Versa

Abstract: The experimental discovery of the $\Theta^+$ Pentaquark opens a new chapter in hadron spectroscopy and may help in our understanding of how hadrons are made from quarks and gluons. The first question arises from its different flavor structure from the anticharmed strange pentaquark $\bar c suud$ predicted by the quark model to be the most favorable pentaquark candidate. The difference has led to two-cluster models to separate the pairs of identical flaver pairs whose short range color-magnetic interaction is repulsive.

Host: M. Bander