Advances in QCD sum rule calculations

Abstract

We review the recent progress in the applications of QCD sum rules to hadron properties with the emphasis on the following selected problems: (i) development of new algorithms for the extraction of ground-state parameters from two-point correlators; (ii) form factors at large momentum transfers from three-point vacuum correlation functions; (iii) properties of exotic tetraquark hadrons from correlation functions of four-quark currents.Comment: 12 pages, plenary talk given at the XIth International Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum, Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 8-12, 201