Some recent research highlights from the CSSM

In this article we provide an overview of some of the recent research highlights from the CSSM. We present new results of our studies into the Θ+ pentaquark state from lattice QCD considering both spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 states. We continue our exploration of exotic states with a study of exotic meson states using hybrid meson interpolators with explicit gluonic degrees of freedom. To investigate scaling, we compare the behaviour of the quark mass function M(q2), and wave-function renormalization function Z(q2), in dynamical lattice QCD, for a variety of bare quark masses, on two lattices with lattice spacing of 0.090 and 0.125 fm, but similar physical volumes.