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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