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Heavy Quarkonia and Quark Drip Lines in Quark-Gluon Plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-11 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Using the potential model and thermodynamical quantities obtained in lattice gauge calculations, we determine the spontaneous dissociation temperatures of color-singlet quarkonia and the `quark drip lines' which separate the region of bound QQˉQ\bar Q states from the unbound region. The dissociation temperatures of J/ψJ/\psi and χb\chi_b in quenched QCD are found to be 1.62TcT_c and 1.18Tc1.18T_c respectively, in good agreement with spectral function analyses. The dissociation temperature of J/ψJ/\psi in full QCD with 2 flavors is found to be 1.42TcT_c. For possible bound quarkonium states with light quarks, the characteristics of the quark drip lines severely limit the stable region close to the phase transition temperature. Bound color-singlet quarkonia with light quarks may exist very near the phase transition temperature if their effective quark mass is of the order of 300-400 MeV and higher.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0606147,
  title  = {Heavy Quarkonia and Quark Drip Lines in Quark-Gluon Plasma},
  author = {Cheuk-Yin Wong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0606147},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, 2 figures, in LaTex, invited talk presented at the International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, UCLA, March 26-31, 2006