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Description
The discovery of many unexpected new resonance candidates such as the XYZ states and pentaquarks has been challenging the quark model. While high-energy collisions of hadrons and nuclei are a good tool for investigating these topics, they are prone to kinematical effects from hadron decays into the final states. In turn, lepton colliders have been limited by statistics so far: a high-luminosity Electron Ion Collider (EIC) at high energies is called for. In view of the upcoming EIC and JLab experiments, we present sensitivity and feasibility studies for XYZ photoproduction. We also study polarization observables in pentaquark photoproduction as a means of improving detection sensitivity and tackling the quantum numbers and couplings of these states.
