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String breaking by light and strange quarks in QCD

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The energy spectrum of a system containing a static quark anti-quark pair is computed for a wide range of source separations using lattice QCD with $N_\mathrm{f}=2+1$ dynamical flavours. By employing a variational method with a basis including operators resembling both the gluon string and systems of two separated static mesons, the first three energy levels are determined up to and beyond the distance where it is energetically favourable for the vacuum to screen the static sources through light- or strange-quark pair creation, enabling both these screening phenomena to be observed. The separation dependence of the energy spectrum is reliably parameterised over this saturation region with a simple model which can be used as input for subsequent investigations of quarkonia above threshold and heavy-light and heavy-strange coupled-channel meson scattering.

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Hints for string breaking in QCD

hep-lat · 2026-07-08 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Direct measurement of chromo-electric flux-tube profiles in lattice QCD with physical quark masses indicates string breaking occurs at a quark-antiquark separation between 0.963 and 1.156 fm.

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  • Open-flavor threshold effects on quarkonium spectrum in the BOEFT hep-ph · 2026-04-14 · unverdicted · none · ref 115

    BOEFT quantifies threshold-induced shifts in quarkonium masses below threshold by solving coupled Schrödinger equations using lattice potentials and one parameter fixed to the χ_c1(3872) mass.

  • Hints for string breaking in QCD hep-lat · 2026-07-08 · conditional · none · ref 41 · internal anchor

    Direct measurement of chromo-electric flux-tube profiles in lattice QCD with physical quark masses indicates string breaking occurs at a quark-antiquark separation between 0.963 and 1.156 fm.

  • The Quantum Complexity of String Breaking in the Schwinger Model hep-ph · 2026-01-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 20 · internal anchor

    Quantum complexity measures applied to the Schwinger model reveal nonlocal correlations along the string and show that entanglement and magic give complementary views of string formation and breaking.

  • Compactness, mass spectra, and strong stability of singly heavy tetraquarks hep-ph · 2026-07-07 · conditional · none · ref 57 · internal anchor

    A radius-dependent chromoelectric interaction in the MIT bag model predicts that the state T_ncs̄n̄(0+, 2.925) is a compact tetraquark candidate corresponding to the experimentally observed T_c̄s0^a(2900).

  • $\boldsymbol{\chi_{c1}}(3872)$ and its Partners in the Diabatic Born-Oppenheimer Approximation for QCD hep-ph · 2026-06-10 · unverdicted · none · ref 41 · internal anchor

    χ_c1(3872) is treated as a bound state in adjoint-meson Born-Oppenheimer potentials within a diabatic model, with calculated spin splittings and decay widths for its multiplet and bottom analogs after tuning to threshold.