Light meson spectroscopy at BESIII

Abstract

Light meson spectroscopy plays an important role in understanding the Quantum Chromodynamics in non-perturbative energy region and the decay dynamics of unconventional hadronic states. BESIII has collected the largest J/ψ and ψ ′ data samples in the world, which provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the light meson spectroscopy. The paper presents some highlights on light meson spectroscopy achieved in BESIII, such as search for glueball candidates, studies of the structure near p p threshold and studies of strange quarkonium.