We investigate the modification of S and P wave states in the bottomonium spectrum above and below the deconfinement crossover temperature through their spectral functions obtained from the maximum entropy method. Anisotropic ensembles with Nf=2+1 Wilson clover fermions with tadpole-improvement are used while the bottom quark is treated with an improved non-relativistic action. We observe significant modifications of the P wave χb1 ground state directly above the crossover temperature, Tc, while the S wave Υ ground state remains relatively unchanged up to temperatures of almost 2Tc. This evidence supports earlier conclusions from our FASTSUM collaboration of the immediate dissociation of the P wave states above Tc and the survival of the S wave ground states up to 2Tc.
@article{arxiv.1311.3208,
title = {Bottomonium spectrum at finite temperature},
author = {Tim Harris and Sinéad M. Ryan and Gert Aarts and Chris Allton and Seyong Kim and Maria Paola Lombardo and Jon-Ivar Skullerud},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3208},
year = {2013}
}
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presented at the 31st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice 2013), 29 July - 3 August 2013, Mainz, Germany