Quarkonium interactions in hadronic, nuclear and thermal matter (B08)

• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: since 2012
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 196253076

Heavy quarkonium physics has developed considerably in the last twenty years because of the enormous flow of new data, mainly coming from the B factories, and because of the theoretical progress, mostly driven by the development of non-relativistic effective field theories. Here, we utilize and refine the so-called potential non-relativistic QCD, pNRQCD, which resolves distances of order 1/(mv2) or larger. The aim of the project is to compute heavy quarkonium widths and production cross sections in the framework of pNRQCD, with focus on a controlled inclusion of non-perturbative contributions.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 110: Symmetries and the Emergence of Structure in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
• International Connection: China
• Applicant Institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Yu Jia; Professor Dr. Antonio Vairo; Professor Dr. Jian-Xiong Wang, until 6/2016