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Quark Nuclear Physics with Heavy Quarks
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 24 Apr 2022
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The authors' main claim We will show that in this novel theoretical framework, quarkonium can play a crucial role for a number of problems at the frontier of our research, from the investigation of the confinement dynamics in strong interactions to the study of deconfinement and the phase diagram of nuclear matter, to the precise determination of Standard Model parameters up to the emergence of exotics X Y Z states of an unprecedented nature.
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Heavy quarks have been instrumental for progress in our exploration of strong interactions. Quarkonium in particular, a heavy quark-antiquark nonrelativistic bound state, has been at the root of several revolutions. Quarkonium is endowed with a pattern of separated energy scales qualifying it as special probe of complex environments. Its multiscale nature has made a description in Quantum Field Theory particularly difficult up to the advent of Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories. We will focus on systems made by two or more heavy quarks. After considering some historical approaches based on the potential models and the Wilson loop approach, we will introduce the contemporary nonrelativistic effective field theory descriptions, in particular potential Nonrelativistic QCD which entails the Schoedinger equation as zero order problem, define the potentials as matching coefficients and allows systematic calculations of the physical properties. The effective field theory allows us to explore quarkonium properties in the realm of QCD. In particular it allows us to make calculations with unprecedented precision when high order perturbative calculations are possible and to systematically factorize short from long range contributions where observables are sensitive to the nonperturbative dynamics of QCD. Such effective field theory treatment can be extended at finite temperature and in presence of gluonic and light quark excitations. We will show that in this novel theoretical framework, quarkonium can play a crucial role for a number of problems at the frontier of our research, from the investigation of the confinement dynamics in strong interactions to the study of deconfinement and the phase diagram of nuclear matter, to the precise determination of Standard Model parameters up to the emergence of exotics X Y Z states of an unprecedented nature.
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| s0 | Heavy quarks have been instrumental for progress in our exploration of strong interactions. | background 1.00 | 0.05 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Quarkonium in particular, a heavy quark-antiquark nonrelativistic bound state, has been at the root of several revolutions. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | Quarkonium is endowed with a pattern of separated energy scales qualifying it as special probe of complex environments. | background 1.00 | 0.06 | 0.04 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | Its multiscale nature has made a description in Quantum Field Theory particularly difficult up to the advent of Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories. | background 0.80 | 0.05 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s4 | We will focus on systems made by two or more heavy quarks. | contribution 0.82 | 0.18 | 0.04 | asserted 0.76 |
| s5 | After considering some historical approaches based on the potential models and the Wilson loop approach, we will introduce the contemporary nonrelativistic effective field theory descriptions, in particular potential Nonrelativistic QCD which entails the Schoedinger equation as zero order problem, define the potentials as matching coefficients and allows systematic calculations of the physical properties. | method 0.62 | 0.21 | 0.09 | asserted 0.93 |
| s6 | The effective field theory allows us to explore quarkonium properties in the realm of QCD. | method 0.50 | 0.16 | 0.08 | asserted 0.79 |
| s7 | In particular it allows us to make calculations with unprecedented precision when high order perturbative calculations are possible and to systematically factorize short from long range contributions where observables are sensitive to the nonperturbative dynamics of QCD. | method 0.57 | 0.14 | 0.11 | asserted 0.85 |
| s8 | Such effective field theory treatment can be extended at finite temperature and in presence of gluonic and light quark excitations. | method 0.45 | 0.11 | 0.05 | hedged possibility 0.61 |
| s9 | We will show that in this novel theoretical framework, quarkonium can play a crucial role for a number of problems at the frontier of our research, from the investigation of the confinement dynamics in strong interactions to the study of deconfinement and the phase diagram of nuclear matter, to the precise determination of Standard Model parameters up to the emergence of exotics X Y Z states of an unprecedented nature. | contribution 0.52 | 0.34 | 0.65 | asserted 0.96 |
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Heavy quarks have been instrumental for progress in our exploration of strong interactions. Quarkonium in particular, a heavy quark-antiquark nonrelativistic bound state, has been at the root of several revolutions. Quarkonium is endowed with a pattern of separated energy scales qualifying it as special probe of complex environments. Its multiscale nature has made a description in Quantum Field Theory particularly difficult up to the advent of Nonrelativistic Effective Field Theories. We will focus on systems made by two or more heavy quarks. After considering some historical approaches based on the potential models and the Wilson loop approach, we will introduce the contemporary nonrelativistic effective field theory descriptions, in particular potential Nonrelativistic QCD which entails the Schoedinger equation as zero order problem, define the potentials as matching coefficients and allows systematic calculations of the physical properties. The effective field theory allows us to explore quarkonium properties in the realm of QCD. In particular it allows us to make calculations with unprecedented precision when high order perturbative calculations are possible and to systematically factorize short from long range contributions where observables are sensitive to the nonperturbative dynamics of QCD. Such effective field theory treatment can be extended at finite temperature and in presence of gluonic and light quark excitations. We will show that in this novel theoretical framework, quarkonium can play a crucial role for a number of problems at the frontier of our research, from the investigation of the confinement dynamics in strong interactions to the study of deconfinement and the phase diagram of nuclear matter, to the precise determination of Standard Model parameters up to the emergence of exotics X Y Z states of an unprecedented nature.
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This is characteristic of diffusive motion, and hence diffusion properties of heavy quarks within the QGP have been subject to extensive research [ref] .
Heavy quark diffusion coefficient in heavy-ion collisions via kinetic theory · Introduction · 0.97
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Previous works have used few-body methods, for example based on Fadeev equations, and variational methods to calculate quarkonium and baryon masses using potential models [ref] .
Baryons, multi-hadron systems, and composite dark matter in non-relativistic QCD · Many-body methods · 0.94
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However, “heavy quark effective theory” (HQET) [ref] , the EFT description of heavy-light mesons, where only an ultraviolet mass scale $m$ and an infrared mass scale $$ appear, is not suitable for the description of heavy quarkonia, since HQET is unable to describe the dynamics of the binding.
Effective Field Theory and Heavy Quark Physics · Nonrelativistic effective field theories · contest 0.74
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Decays are described by calculating the imaginary parts of the potentials [ref] where nonperturbative contributions enter in the form of gauge invariant time non local chromoelectric and chromomagnetic correlators that have still to be calculated on the lattice.
Inclusive Decays of Heavy Quarkonium to Light Particles · Strongly coupled pNRQCD · 0.84
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In particular we can use the lattice evaluation of the gluonic static energies of a $QQ̅$ pair: they have been calculated since long [ref] and recently updated [ref] .
QCD phenomenology of static sources and gluonic excitations at short distances · Strongly coupled pNRQCD · 0.92
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In particular we can use the lattice evaluation of the gluonic static energies of a $QQ̅$ pair: they have been calculated since long [ref] and recently updated [ref] .
Hybrid static potential flux tubes from SU(2) and SU(3) lattice gauge theory · Strongly coupled pNRQCD · 0.92
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In particular we can use the lattice evaluation of the gluonic static energies of a $QQ̅$ pair: they have been calculated since long [ref] and recently updated [ref] .
Fine Structure of the QCD String Spectrum · Strongly coupled pNRQCD · 0.92
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Such form of the potential has been later confirmed by nonperturbative calculations performed using computational lattice QCD [ref] .
QCD forces and heavy quark bound states · The role of heavy quarks · 0.97
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Such form of the potential has been later confirmed by nonperturbative calculations performed using computational lattice QCD [ref] .
Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum · The role of heavy quarks · 0.97
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Nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) [ref] , follows from QCD integrating out the scale $m$.
Rigorous QCD Analysis of Inclusive Annihilation and Production of Heavy Quarkonium · Nonrelativistic QCD · 0.94
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We will introduce in the next sections nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) [ref] and potential nonrelativistic QCD (pNRQCD) [ref] , see the review [ref] .
Potential NRQCD: an effective theory for heavy quarkonium · Nonrelativistic effective field theories · 0.86
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We will introduce in the next sections nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) [ref] and potential nonrelativistic QCD (pNRQCD) [ref] , see the review [ref] .
Effective field theories for heavy quarkonium · Nonrelativistic effective field theories · 0.86
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