SPQR -- Spectroscopy: Prospects, Questions & Results

Abstract

Tremendous progress has been made in mapping out the spectrum of hadrons over the past decade with plans to make further advances in the decade ahead. Baryons and mesons, both expected and unexpected, have been found, the results of precision experiments often with polarized beams, polarized targets and sometimes polarization of the final states. All these hadrons generate poles in the complex energy plane that are consequences of strong coupling QCD. They reveal how this works.

6 pages, 3 figures. The opening talk at the 13th International Conference on Meson-Nucleon Physics and the Structure of the Nucleon (MENU2013), Rome, September 30th-October 4th, 2013