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Understanding the baryon and meson spectra

Abstract

A brief overview is given of what we know of the baryon and meson spectra, with a focus on what are the key internal degrees of freedom and how these relate to strong coupling QCD. The challenges, experimental, theoretical and phenomenological, for the future are outlined, with particular reference to a program at Jefferson Lab to extract hadronic states in which glue unambiguously contributes to their quantum numbers.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Invited talk at the Eleventh Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2012), St Petersburg, Florida. May29-June 3, 201

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