How to compute the thermal quarkonium spectral function from first principles?
Abstract
In the limit of a high temperature T and a large quark-mass M, implying a small gauge coupling g, the heavy quark contribution to the spectral function of the electromagnetic current can be computed systematically in the weak-coupling expansion. We argue that the scale hierarchy relevant for addressing the disappearance ("melting") of the resonance peak from the spectral function reads M >> T > g^2 M > gT >> g^4 M, and review how the heavy scales can be integrated out one-by-one, to construct a set of effective field theories describing the low-energy dynamics. The parametric behaviour of the melting temperature in the weak-coupling limit is specified.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0810.1112,
title = {How to compute the thermal quarkonium spectral function from first principles?},
author = {M. Laine},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.1112},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
8 pages; to appear in the Proceedings of SEWM08, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, August 26-29, 2008