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and its Partners in the Diabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation for QCD
Fareed Alasiri, Eric Braaten, Roberto Bruschini
In the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for QCD, the exotic hidden-charm tetraquark meson is a near-threshold bound state in Born-Oppenheimer potentials associated wi…
Hidden-Heavy Pentaquarks and Where to Find Them
Fareed Alasiri, Eric Braaten, Roberto Bruschini
We provide a simple explanation for the observed hidden-charm pentaquarks as bound states in Born-Oppenheimer potentials. We identify , …
Explaining Snowball-in-hell Phenomena in Heavy-ion Collisions Using a Novel Thermodynamic Variable
Eric Braaten, Kevin Ingles, Justin Pickett
A loosely bound hadronic molecule produced by a relativistic heavy-ion collision has been described as a ``snowball in hell'' since it emerges from a hadron resonance gas whose tem…
Exotic Hidden-heavy Hadrons and Where to Find Them
Eric Braaten, Roberto Bruschini
The Born-Oppenheimer potentials for QCD with light quarks include adjoint-hadron potentials that are repulsive at short distances and heavy-hadron-pair potentials that approach thr…
Model-independent predictions for decays of hidden-heavy hadrons into pairs of heavy hadrons
E. Braaten, R. Bruschini
Hidden-heavy hadrons can decay into pairs of heavy hadrons through transitions from confining Born-Oppenheimer potentials to hadron-pair potentials with the same Born-Oppenheimer q…