Production of exotic hadrons at hadron colliders
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-06-22 v1
Abstract
The observation of many unexpected states decaying into heavy quarkonia has challenged the usual QQbar interpretation. One of the most studied exotic states, the X(3872), happens to be copiously produced in high-energy hadron collisions. We discuss how this large prompt production cross-section disfavors a loosely-bound molecule interpretation for this particle. This is supported by Monte Carlo simulations, and by a comparison with extrapolated light nuclei data by ALICE.
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@article{arxiv.1512.04649,
title = {Production of exotic hadrons at hadron colliders},
author = {A. Pilloni},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.04649},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures, to appear in HADRON 2015 proceedings