https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16220-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Novel QCD physics at NICA
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, 94309, Stanford, CA, USA
* e-mail: sjbth@slac.stanford.edu
Received:
28
July
2015
Accepted:
14
September
2015
Published online:
15
August
2016
The NICA collider project at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna will have the capability of colliding protons, polarized deuterons, and nuclei at an effective nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy in the range 
GeV. I briefly survey a number of novel hadron physics processes which can be investigated at the NICA collider. The topics include the formation of exotic heavy-quark resonances near the charm and bottom thresholds, intrinsic strangeness, charm, and bottom phenomena, hidden-color degrees of freedom in nuclei, color transparency, single-spin asymmetries, the RHIC baryon anomaly, and non-universal antishadowing.
© SIF, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2016
