nLab quarkonium

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Context

Fields and quanta

fields and particles in particle physics

and in the standard model of particle physics:

force field gauge bosons

scalar bosons

matter field fermions (spinors, Dirac fields)

flavors of fundamental fermions in the
standard model of particle physics:
generation of fermions1st generation2nd generation3d generation
quarks (qq)
up-typeup quark (uu)charm quark (cc)top quark (tt)
down-typedown quark (dd)strange quark (ss)bottom quark (bb)
leptons
chargedelectronmuontauon
neutralelectron neutrinomuon neutrinotau neutrino
bound states:
mesonslight mesons:
pion (udu d)
ρ-meson (udu d)
ω-meson (udu d)
f1-meson
a1-meson
strange-mesons:
ϕ-meson (ss¯s \bar s),
kaon, K*-meson (usu s, dsd s)
eta-meson (uu+dd+ssu u + d d + s s)

charmed heavy mesons:
D-meson (uc u c, dcd c, scs c)
J/ψ-meson (cc¯c \bar c)
bottom heavy mesons:
B-meson (qbq b)
ϒ-meson (bb¯b \bar b)
baryonsnucleons:
proton (uud)(u u d)
neutron (udd)(u d d)

(also: antiparticles)

effective particles

hadrons (bound states of the above quarks)

solitons

in grand unified theory

minimally extended supersymmetric standard model

superpartners

bosinos:

sfermions:

dark matter candidates

Exotica

auxiliary fields

Contents

Idea

In quantum hadrodynamics a quarkonium particle is a meson which is a bound state of one of the heavy quarks with its own antiparticle.

Examples

Examples of quarkonia:

References

See also

Dicussion in the context of quark gluon plasma:

  • Xiaojun Yao, Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu, Ste, Quarkonium Production in Heavy Ion Collisions: From Open Quantum System to Transport Equation (arXiv:2002.04079)

The Dalitz decay of quarkonium:

  • Yu Jia, Wen-Long Sang, Observation prospects of leptonic and Dalitz decays of pseudoscalar quarkonia, JHEP 0910:090, 2009 (arXiv:0906.4782)

Discussion in AdS/QCD:

  • Hovhannes R. Grigoryan, Paul M. Hohler, Mikhail A. Stephanov, Towards the Gravity Dual of Quarkonium in the Strongly Coupled QCD Plasma (arXiv:1003.1138)

  • Rico Zöllner, Burkhard Kampfer, Holographic vector meson melting in a thermal gravity-dilaton background related to QCD (arXiv:2002.07200)

  • Miguel Angel Martin Contreras, Saulo Diles, Alfredo Vega, Heavy quarkonia spectroscopy at zero and finite temperature in bottom-up AdS/QCD (arXiv:2101.06212)

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