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Nuclear-bound quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2018-04-18 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In our quest to win a deeper understanding of how QCD actually works, the study of the binding of heavy quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons to atomic nuclei offers enormous promise. Modern experimental facilities such as FAIR, Jefferson Lab at 12 GeV and J-PARC offer exciting new experimental opportunities to study such systems. These experimental advances are complemented by new theoretical approaches and predictions, which will both guide these experimental efforts and be informed and improved by them. This review will outline the main theoretical approaches, beginning with QCD itself, summarize recent theoretical predictions and relate them both to past experiments and those from which we may expect results in the near future.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02688,
  title  = {Nuclear-bound quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons},
  author = {G. Krein and A. W. Thomas and K. Tsushima},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02688},
  year   = {2018}
}