Quarkonium-nucleus bound states from lattice QCD
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Beane, S. R.; Chang, E.; Cohen, S. D.; Lin, H.-W.; Orginos, Kostas; Savage, M. J.; Detmold, William; Parreno, A.; ... Show more Show less
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Quarkonium-nucleus systems are composed of two interacting hadronic states without common valence quarks, which interact primarily through multigluon exchanges, realizing a color van der Waals force. We present lattice QCD calculations of the interactions of strange and charm quarkonia with light nuclei. Both the strangeonium-nucleus and charmonium-nucleus systems are found to be relatively deeply bound when the masses of the three light quarks are set equal to that of the physical strange quark. Extrapolation of these results to the physical light-quark masses suggests that the binding energy of charmonium to nuclear matter is B[NM over phys] ≲ 40 MeV.
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2015-06Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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Beane, S. R., et al. "Quarkonium-nucleus Bound States from Lattice QCD." Phys. Rev. D 91, 114503 (June 2015). © 2015 American Physical Society
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1550-7998
1550-2368