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Charmonium in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We present a model of charmonium as two heavy quarks propagating classically in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma. The quarks interact via a static, color-dependent potential and also suffer collisions with the plasma particles. We calculate the radiation width of the color octet state (for fixed, classical qqˉq\bar q separation) and find that it is long-lived provided a finite gluon mass is used to provide a threshold energy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9503305,
  title  = {Charmonium in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma},
  author = {Daphne Levin-Plotnik and Benjamin Svetitsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9503305},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages in plain LaTeX + 3 figures packed with uufiles; slight changes to comply with referees, added one reference

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