Born-Oppenheimer EFT: a unified description of ordinary and exotic quarkonia

Antonio Vairo

Published: 2025/9/16

Abstract

We show how the Born-Oppenheimer effective field theory (BOEFT) provides a unified description of ordinary and exotic quarkonia grounded on the non-relativistic expansions of QCD and supplemented with lattice QCD inputs. We apply BOEFT to tetraquarks, pentaquarks, quarkonium hybrids and to assess threshold effects in the quarkonium spectrum.

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