Two lectures by Mikhail Mikhasenko (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) at the Asia–Europe–Pacific School of High-Energy Physics 2026, Taipei.
- Classification and phenomenology — QCD basics, excited states, the quark model, observed hadrons, resonances.
- Amplitude analysis: how we find hadrons in decays — kinematics, spin, line shapes, the pentaquarks, Tcc⁺.
Slides and PDFs: https://mmikhasenko.github.io/2026-AEPSHEP-Hadron-Spectroscopy/
- Do the quizzes in the slides, and solve the quark-model sheets of the GIModel.jl course.
- Play the Riemann-sheet game to get a feel for poles and sheets.
- Reuse the slides and widgets, and share them with friends.
- If this was useful, put a ⭐ on the repository.
- When you use a result or figure, cite the original scientific paper (linked in the corner of each slide).
- Particle Data Group, Review of Particle Physics — reviews on Quark model, Resonances, Kinematics, QCD.
- S. Godfrey, N. Isgur, Mesons in a relativized quark model with chromodynamics, PRD 32 (1985) 189.
- R. L. Jaffe, Exotica, Phys. Rept. 409 (2005) 1.
- F.-K. Guo et al., Hadronic molecules, Rev. Mod. Phys. 90 (2018) 015004.
- C. Hanhart, M. Mikhasenko, Scattering theory, arXiv:2606.10634.
- JPAC, Dalitz-plot decomposition for three-body decays, PRD 101 (2020) 034033.
- E. Byckling, K. Kajantie, Particle Kinematics (Wiley, 1973).
- P. Koppenburg, list of hadrons discovered at the LHC.
- Nuclear and Particle Physics 2026 — Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- Data Analysis Block Course 2026 — Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Quarto / Reveal.js slides with interactive JavaScript widgets, built with Claude: Astra 6.1 Medium for the technical layout, Claude Opus 5.5 for polishing. GitHub Actions renders the decks, exports PDFs and publishes them to GitHub Pages (workflow); the site layout follows RUB-EP1/2026-Nuclear-and-particle-physics.
Build locally (Quarto required; make pdf also needs Chrome and ImageMagick):
make all # render both decks to HTML
make pdf-all # render and export both PDFsSee slides/README.md for details.