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Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
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Liaoning University, Shenyang 110036, China
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Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
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Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
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Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
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Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China
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Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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Southeast University, Nanjing 211100, China
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State Key Laboratory of Particle Detection and Electronics, Beijing 100049, Hefei 230026, China
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Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510275, China
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Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Ankara University, 06100 Tandogan, Ankara, Turkey
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Istanbul Bilgi University, 34060 Eyup, Istanbul, Turkey
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Uludag University, 16059 Bursa, Turkey
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Near East University, Nicosia, North Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey
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University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
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University of Jinan, Jinan 250022, China
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University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
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University of Muenster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9, 48149 Muenster, Germany
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University of Oxford, Keble Rd, Oxford, UK OX13RH
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University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan 114051, China
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University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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University of South China, Hengyang 421001, China
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University of the Punjab, Lahore-54590, Pakistan
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University of Turin, I-10125, Turin, Italy
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University of Eastern Piedmont, I-15121, Alessandria, Italy
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INFN, I-10125, Turin, Italy
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Uppsala University, Box 516, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden
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Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, China
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
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Aix-Marseille Univ, Université de Toulon, CNRS, CPT, Marseille, France
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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire, IN2P3-CNRS et Université Paris-Sud 11, F-91898, Orsay Cedex, France
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Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, UMR 8627, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
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Lebedev Physical Institute RAS, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan 115, China
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Institute of Theoretical Physics, Beijing 100190, China
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Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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University of Chicago, 5620 S. Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
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Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA
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Also at Bogazici University, 34342 Istanbul, Turkey
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Also at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow 141700, Russia
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Also at the Functional Electronics Laboratory, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, 634050, Russia
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Also at the Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
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Also at the NRC "Kurchatov Institute", PNPI, 188300, Gatchina, Russia
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Also at Istanbul Arel University, 34295 Istanbul, Turkey
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Also at Goethe University Frankfurt, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Also at Key Laboratory for Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Ministry of Education; Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology; Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, Shanghai 200240, China
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Also at Government College Women University, Sialkot - 51310. Punjab, Pakistan.
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Also at Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE) and Institute of Modern Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200443, China
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Also at Harvard University, Department of Physics, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
There has recently been a dramatic renewal of interest in hadron spectroscopy and charm physics. This renaissance has been driven in part by the discovery of a plethora of charmonium-like XYZ states at BESIII and B factories, and the observation of an intriguing proton-antiproton threshold enhancement and the possibly related X(1835) meson state at BESIII, as well as the threshold measurements of charm mesons and charm baryons.
We present a detailed survey of the important topics in tau-charm physics and hadron physics that can be further explored at BESIII during the remaining operation period of BEPCII. This survey will help in the optimization of the data-taking plan over the coming years, and provides physics motivation for the possible upgrade of BEPCII to higher luminosity.
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Supported in part by National Key Basic Research Program of China (2015CB856700); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (11335008, 11425524, 11625523, 11635010, 11735014, 11822506, 11935018); the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Large-Scale Scientific Facility Program; the CAS Center for Excellence in Particle Physics (CCEPP); Joint Large-Scale Scientific Facility Funds of the NSFC and CAS (U1532257, U1532258, U1732263); CAS Key Research Program of Frontier Science (QYZDJ-SSW-SLH003, QYZDJ-SSW-SLH040); 100 Talents Program of CAS; CAS PIFI; the Thousand Talents Program of China; INPAC and Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology; German Research Foundation DFG under Contracts Nos. Collaborative Research Center CRC 1044, FOR 2359; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Italy; Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) (530-4CDP03); Ministry of Development of Turkey (DPT2006K-120470); National Science and Technology fund; The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (Sweden) (2016.0157); The Swedish Research Council; U. S. Department of Energy (DE-FG02-05ER41374, DESC-0010118, DE-SC-0012069); University of Groningen (RuG) and the Helmholtzzentrum fuer Schwerionenforschung GmbH (GSI), Darmstadt; the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education (14.W03.31.0026)