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An overview of XYZ new particles

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Chinese Science Bulletin

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In the past decade, more and more charmoniumlike and bottomoniumlike states have been reported in experiments, which have led us to extensive discussions on the underlying structure of these states. In this review, we briefly summarize the experimental and theoretical status of these observed states.

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The author thanks Professor Tao Huang for suggesting the topic and all my collaborators for the enjoyable collaborations. I also would like to thank Professor Takayuki Matsuki for reading the manuscript and suggestive comments. Because of his personal research interest, the author apologizes to those whose papers and contributions were not mentioned in this work. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (11222547, 11175073 and 11035006), the Foundation of the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (200924), the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education (2012021111000), New Century Excellent Talents in University and the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (131006).

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Liu, X. An overview of XYZ new particles. Chin. Sci. Bull. 59, 3815–3830 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-014-0407-2

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