We study the potential of X(3872) at finite temperature in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation under the assumption that it is a tetraquark. We argue that, at large number of colors, it is a good approximation to assume that the potential consists in a real part plus a constant imaginary term. The real part is then computed adapting an approach by Rothkopf and Lafferty and using as input...
The nuclear modification of quarkonium state production is one of the smoking gun evidence of the deconfined QCD medium production in nuclear collisions. However, this modification does not solely originate from the medium dissociation but rather is a collection of effects from initial to final states. To better understand the interplay of these effects nowadays, the production relation of...
Polarization is a key observable to study the quarkonium production mechanism in elementary hadronic collisions. Its very small value measured at the LHC challenges the commonly-used theoretical models and it still represents a major standing issue in the field. In nuclear collisions, heavy quarks are produced at the initial stage collisions, on a time scale shorter than the QGP formation...
The production of hadrons containing charm and beauty quarks has been extensively studied in hadronic collisions, improving the understanding of the hadronisation mechanisms. One aspect of the transition of the heavy quark to the final-state hadron not yet settled regards the spin properties of particles produced in the quark hadronisation. In proton–proton (pp) collisions, the observation of...
Ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions generate a powerful electromagnetic field that produces photonuclear reactions. Recently, coherent $J/\psi$ photoproduction has been observed in nucleus–nucleus (A–A) collisions with nuclear overlap, based on the measurement of an excess of $J/\psi$ production with respect to hadron-production expectations at very low $p_{\rm T}$. In this context, a...