Perspectives on the (sub)structure of multi-quark hadrons in QCD

by Anthony Francis

Thursday Jun 29, 2023, 2:15 PM → 3:45 PM Europe/Berlin

D6-135 (UHG)

Experimental and theoretical efforts continue to uncover surprisingly rich structures in the QCD spectrum. In the heavy sector alone, for example, among the about 62 (LHCb'22) new hadron states observed, many are 4-or 5-quark states. These states are phenomenologicallydifficult to explain and often contradictory or competing statements are made depending on how QCD interactions are modelled. In this talk I will present current efforts to resolve this impasse by performing QCD calculations without approximation using advanced lattice QCD techniques. Focussingon doubly heavy tetraquarks, recent lattice efforts will be reviewed and paths towards understanding the substructure of these states sketched out. To illustrate I will give details on the possibility of understanding deeply bound doubly heavy tetraquarksin terms of diquarkeffective degrees of freedom and how the properties of these diquarkscan be determined on the lattice.

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