Puzzle Pieces: Results on bbbar and ccbar Spectroscopy and Decay

Recent results in the decays of the heavy quarks, bottom and charm, are reviewed.

This paper reviews the results presented at the 31st ICHEP on Heavy Quarks, with emphasis on those related to the determinationof the unitarity triangle parameters.

I review recent results on hadron spectroscopy using lattice QCD. In light of the discoveries in heavy baryon sector at LHCb over the past few years, lattice calculations in this regard are emphasized. Investigations on light baryon, heavy-heavy and heavy-light meson resonances are also discussed.

About 120 baryons and baryon resonances are known, from the abundant nucleon with $u$ and $d$ light-quark constituents up to the recently discovered $\Omega_b^-=bss$, and the $\Xi_b^-=bsd$ which contains one quark of each generation. In spite of this impressively large number of states, the underlying mechanisms leading to the excitation spectrum are not yet understood. Heavy-quark baryons suffer from a lack of known spin-parities. In the light-quark sector, quark-model calcu...

A brief review of the latest developments in the spectroscopy of heavy quarks is presented. The current status of the recently `discovered' pentaquarks is also discussed.

The latest experimental results in bottomonium and charmonium spectroscopy from CLEO is presented.

Rare decays of b hadrons provide a powerful way of identifying contributions from physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular from new hypothetical particles too heavy to be produced at colliders. The most relevant experimental measurements are reviewed and possible interpretations are briefly discussed.

In this brief review, we examine carefully and critically the status of search for the $h_c$ [$\psi(1^1P_1)$] charmonium state and the $h_b$ [$\Upsilon(1^1P_1)$] bottonium state, initiated by the E760 experiment. Recent experimental studies at CLEO/BABAR/BELLE are examined in the light of new theoretical and phenomenological understanding.

The new millennium's qualitative advances in relativistic heavy ion physics are in part due to, and are in part causing, a new appreciation for quantitative rigor in both experimental and theoretical work in the field. In these proceedings for the conference-opening "pre-Summary" talk I present an annotated guide to the figures and points made in my talk.

Valuable data on quarkonia (the bound states of a heavy quark Q=c,b and the corresponding antiquark) have recently been provided by a variety of sources, mainly e+ e- collisions, but also hadronic interactions. This permits a thorough updating of the experimental and theoretical status of electromagnetic and strong transitions in quarkonia. We discuss QQbar transitions to other QQbar states, with some reference to processes involving QQbar annihilation.