English

Bottomonium suppression and elliptic flow from real-time quantum evolution

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-11-24 v2 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We compute the suppression and elliptic flow of bottomonium using real-time solutions to the Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a realistic in-medium complex-valued potential. To model the initial production, we assume that, in the limit of heavy quark masses, the wave-function can be described by a lattice-smeared (Gaussian) Dirac delta wave-function. The resulting final-state quantum-mechanical overlaps provide the survival probability of all bottomonium eigenstates. Our results are in good agreement with available data for RAAR_{AA} as a function of NpartN_{\rm part} and pTp_T collected at sNN=\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.02 TeV. In the case of v2v_2 for the various states, we find that the path-length dependence of Υ(1s)\Upsilon(1s) suppression results in quite small v2v_2 for Υ(1s)\Upsilon(1s). Our prediction for the integrated elliptic flow for Υ(1s)\Upsilon(1s) in the 109010{-}90% centrality class is v2[Υ(1s)]=0.0026±0.0007v_2[\Upsilon(1s)] = 0.0026 \pm 0.0007. We additionally find that, due to their increased suppression, excited bottomonium states have a larger elliptic flow and we make predictions for v2[Υ(2s)]v_2[\Upsilon(2s)] and v2[Υ(3s)]v_2[\Upsilon(3s)] as a function of centrality and transverse momentum. Similar to prior studies, we find that it is possible for bottomonium states to have negative v2v_2 at low transverse momentum.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2007.10211,
  title  = {Bottomonium suppression and elliptic flow from real-time quantum evolution},
  author = {Ajaharul Islam and Michael Strickland},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.10211},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, 8 figures, 1 table; published version

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