Charmonium spectral functions in two-flavour QCD

G. Aarts; C. R. Allton; R. Morrin; A. O. Cais; M. B. Oktay; M. J. Peardon; J. I. Skullerud

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2006.11.065

Charmonium spectral functions in two-flavour QCD

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2008-11-26 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Authors: G. Aarts , C. R. Allton , R. Morrin , A. O. Cais , M. B. Oktay , M. J. Peardon , J. I. Skullerud

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Abstract

We compute charmonium spectral functions in 2-flavour QCD using the maximum entropy method and anisotropic lattices. We find that the S-waves (J/psi and eta_c) survive up to temperatures close to 2T_c, while the P-waves (chi_c0 and chi_c1) melt away below 1.3T_c.

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0608009,
  title  = {Charmonium spectral functions in two-flavour QCD},
  author = {G. Aarts and C. R. Allton and R. Morrin and A. O. Cais and M. B. Oktay and M. J. Peardon and J. I. Skullerud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0608009},
  year   = {2008}
}

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4 pages, 6 figures, talk by JIS at Strong and Electroweak Matter, Brookhaven, 10-13 May 2006

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