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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This Wednesday, April 26<sup>th</sup>, at 1:00PM (EDT), we will have a cake seminar given by Gloria Montaña of JLab in CEBAF Center room L102.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please see below for the title and abstract.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Cake Seminar</u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Wednesday, April 26<sup>th</sup> at 1:00 PM</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Gloria Montaña</u></b> (JLab)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Will discuss “Heavy mesons in a hot medium”</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Abstract</u></b>:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Mesons with heavy flavor content are a promising probe of the hot QCD phases produced in heavy-ion collisions. I will present our recent progress on the properties of heavy mesons modified by the presence of a thermal mesonic medium. We
employ an effective field theory based on chiral and heavy-quark spin-flavor symmetries to describe the scattering of the heavy mesons off the light mesons, and incorporate finite-temperature corrections in a self-consistent way through the imaginary-time
formalism [1,2]. I will discuss our results of the thermal scattering amplitudes and spectral functions, as well as several applications including the calculation of (i) meson Euclidean correlators [3], (ii) off-shell transport coefficients [4], and (iii)
the thermal properties of the exotic X(3872) state and its spin-flavor partners [5].</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">[1] G. Montaña, A. Ramos, L. Tolos and J. M. Torres-Rincon, Phys. Lett. B 806 (2020), 135464</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[2] G. Montaña, A. Ramos, L. Tolos and J. M. Torres-Rincon, Phys. Rev. D 102 (2020) 9, 096020
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<p class="MsoNormal">[3] G. Montaña, O. Kaczmarek, L. Tolos and A. Ramos, Eur. Phys. J. A 56 (2020) 11, 294
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-TRAD">[4] J. M. Torres-Rincon, G. Montaña, A. Ramos and L. Tolos, Phys.
</span>Rev. C 105 (2022) 2, 025203 </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">[5] G. Montaña, A. Ramos, L. Tolos and J. M. Torres-Rincon, Phys. Rev. D 107 (2023) 054014</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">See you on Wednesday,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Patrick, Caroline, and Joe</p>
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