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  • noun Plural form of quarkonium.

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  • Both facilities can be tuned to produce excited states of "heavy quarkonia" mesons such as bottomonium, which is made from bottom and anti-bottom quarks.

    physicsworld.com: all content 2010

  • There are two vertical strands - gluons - stretched in between two horizontal external quarks in the quarkonia scattering states.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • If you scatter two heavy quarkonia (or 7-7 "flavored" open strings in an AdS/CFT context, think about the Polchinski-Strassler N = 1* theory) - which is the example you want to consider

    The Reference Frame 2010

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