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Spectroscopy of higher bottomonia

In this contribution, we discuss our recent unquenched quark model results for the spectrum of $b \bar b$ mesons with self energy corrections, due to the coupling to the meson-meson continuum. Our unquenched quark model predictions for the masses of the recently discovered $χ_b(3P)$ states are compared to those of a re-fit of Godfrey and Isgur's relativized quark model to the most recent experimental data. The possible importance of continuum effects in the $χ_b(3P)$ states is discussed. Finally, we show our quark model results for the radiative decays of the $χ_b(3P)$ system and the open-bottom decays of $b \bar b$ mesons.