Mesons, baryons, and tetraquarks in the QCD medium at LHCb

  • Nuclear, Particle, Astroparticle and Cosmology (NUPAC) Seminars

October 7, 2025 2:00 PM
PAIS 3205

Host:
Svende Braun
Presenter:
Matt Durham (LANL)
One of the defining features of Quantum Chromodynamics is confinement, which prevents isolated quarks and gluons from being observed.   Instead, these partons are bound within a rich spectrum of hadrons, which have various quark content, binding energy, and size.  The LHCb detector has a unique suite of capabilities that offers access to an unprecedented range of conventional and exotic hadrons.  I will discuss recent LHCb results on mesons, baryons, and tetraquarks that are sensitive to the mechanisms enforcing confinement.  In particular, I will show how these mechanisms are affected by the hadronic environment and discuss our understanding of hadronization in the QCD medium, and implications for how the first stable matter formed in the Universe.

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