2 papers
hep-ex2026
Hadron Physics Opportunities at FAIR
J. G. Messchendorp, F. Nerling, P. Achenbach +103
This White Paper outlines a coordinated, decade-spanning programme of hadron and QCD studies anchored at the GSI/FAIR accelerator complex. Profiting from intense deuteron, proton a…
hep-ph2025
Quark Coalescence: Formation of Mesons Including Excited States
R. J. Fries, P. Virupapuram, J. Purcell +5
We discuss the quantum mechanics of coalescence of quark-antiquark pairs into mesons using a non-relativistic quark model. We derive the coalescence probabilities assuming a harmon…