Exotic Hadrons from Heavy Ion Collisions

Understand

Heavy ion collisions (HIC) at high energies are excellent ways for producing heavy hadrons and composite particles.

• With upgraded detectors at RHIC and LHC, it has become possible to measure hadrons beyond their ground states.
• Therefore, HIC provide a new method for studying exotic hadrons that are either hadronic molecular states or compact multiquark systems.
• Because their structures are related to the fundamental properties of QCD, studying exotic hadrons is currently one of the most active areas of research in hadron physics.