nLab tensor meson

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Context

Fields and quanta

fields and particles in particle physics

and in the standard model of particle physics:

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)

flavors of fundamental fermions in the
standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions1st generation2nd generation3d generation
quarks (qq)
up-typeup quark (uu)charm quark (cc)top quark (tt)
down-typedown quark (dd)strange quark (ss)bottom quark (bb)
leptons
chargedelectronmuontauon
neutralelectron neutrinomuon neutrinotau neutrino
bound states:
mesonslight mesons:
pion (udu d)
ρ-meson (udu d)
ω-meson (udu d)
f1-meson
a1-meson
strange-mesons:
ϕ-meson (ss¯s \bar s),
kaon, K*-meson (usu s, dsd s)
eta-meson (uu+dd+ssu u + d d + s s)

charmed heavy mesons:
D-meson (uc u c, dcd c, scs c)
J/ψ-meson (cc¯c \bar c)
bottom heavy mesons:
B-meson (qbq b)
ϒ-meson (bb¯b \bar b)
baryonsnucleons:
proton (uud)(u u d)
neutron (udd)(u d d)

(also: antiparticles)

effective particles

hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)

solitons

in grand unified theory

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

sfermions:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

Contents

Idea

By a tensor meson the literature typically means a type of meson whose Wigner classification is a Lorentz-spin group spin-2 representation, hence given by a symmetric rank-2 tensor.

Indeed, in the AdS/QCD correspondence these “tensor mesons” are dual to graviton-modes in the \sim bulk spacetime.

Beware that there are also mesons given by anti-symmetric rank-2 tensors (the h1-meson and b1-meson), but since these are “spin-1”, they are counted as vector mesons.

More generally, there are higher spin mesons?, which hence could also be called “tensor mesons”.

References

General

  • F. Giacosa, Th. Gutsche, V. E. Lyubovitskij, Amand Faessler, Decays of tensor mesons and the tensor glueball in an effective field approach, Phys. Rev. D72 (2005) 114021 (arXiv:hep-ph/0511171)

  • J.Y. Süngü, A. Türkan, E. Sertbakan, E. Veli Veliev, Axial-tensor Meson Family at T0T \neq 0 (arXiv:2005.11526)

In holographic QCD

Discussion of tensor mesons in holographic QCD:

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