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Charm Spectroscopy

Spectroscopy studies are directly dependent on the size of the data sample. Already in HERA-I sample of charm events, larger than that at the LEP experiments, was collected. While the samples of the new dedicated experiments, such as CLEO-c, FOCUS, Selex, BaBar and Belle, as well as those of the Tevatron experiments are already now significantly larger than the charm samples expected at HERA-II, it will still be interesting to investigate the HERA-data for higher charm resonances. The production process in $ ep$-collisions might provide opportunities to measure particles the production of which is suppressed at other colliders. In this context the question of the existence or non-existence of charmed (and strange) pentaquarks must be resolved.



Andreas Meyer 2006-02-13