https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201713705014
On the description of exotic hadron states within QCD sum rules
1 Institute for High Energy Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Nikolsdorfergasse 18, A-1050 Vienna, Austria
2 Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna, Austria
3 D. V. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia
a e-mail: Wolfgang.Lucha@oeaw.ac.at
b e-mail: dmitri_melikhov@gmx.de
Published online: 22 March 2017
Revisiting the QCD sum-rule description of exotic hadron states, we argue that, in order to arrive at trustable analyses of, for instance, strong decay widths of multiquarks, it is inevitable to adopt the QCD sum-rule approach beyond the leading perturbative level.
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