# Nuclear-bound quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons

## TL;DR

This paper reviews the theoretical and experimental progress in understanding how heavy quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons bind to atomic nuclei, highlighting recent advances and future prospects in QCD research.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of current theoretical models and experimental opportunities for studying nuclear-bound heavy-flavor systems in QCD.

## Key findings

- Summarizes recent theoretical predictions on heavy-flavor hadron binding.
- Highlights upcoming experimental facilities and their potential contributions.
- Connects past experimental results with future research directions.

## Abstract

In our quest to win a deeper understanding of how QCD actually works, the study of the binding of heavy quarkonia and heavy-flavor hadrons to atomic nuclei offers enormous promise. Modern experimental facilities such as FAIR, Jefferson Lab at 12 GeV and J-PARC offer exciting new experimental opportunities to study such systems. These experimental advances are complemented by new theoretical approaches and predictions, which will both guide these experimental efforts and be informed and improved by them. This review will outline the main theoretical approaches, beginning with QCD itself, summarize recent theoretical predictions and relate them both to past experiments and those from which we may expect results in the near future.