Heavy Quarkonia and Quark Drip Lines in Quark-Gluon Plasma
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 states from the unbound region. The dissociation temperatures of and in quenched QCD are found to be 1.62 and respectively, in good agreement with spectral function analyses. The dissociation temperature of in full QCD with 2 flavors is found to be 1.42. 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}
}
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8 pages, 2 figures, in LaTex, invited talk presented at the International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter, UCLA, March 26-31, 2006