Heavy Quarkonium in a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma below the melting temperature
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2014-11-21 v1 Nuclear Theory
Abstract
We calculate the heavy quarkonium energy levels and decay widths in a quark-gluon plasma, whose temperature T and screening mass m_D satisfy the hierarchy m alpha_s >> T >> m alpha_s^2 >> m_D (m being the heavy-quark mass), at order m alpha_s^5. We first sequentially integrate out the scales m, m alpha_s and T, and, next, we carry out the calculations in the resulting effective theory using techniques of integration by regions. A collinear region is identified, which contributes at this order. We also discuss the implications of our results concerning heavy quarkonium suppression in heavy ion collisions.
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@article{arxiv.1007.4156,
title = {Heavy Quarkonium in a weakly-coupled quark-gluon plasma below the melting temperature},
author = {Nora Brambilla and Miguel Angel Escobedo and Jacopo Ghiglieri and Joan Soto and Antonio Vairo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.4156},
year = {2014}
}
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25 pages, 2 figures