In-Medium Quarkonia at SPS, RHIC and LHC
Abstract
A kinetic-rate equation approach in a thermally expanding medium is employed to calculate the evolution of charmonium and bottomonium distributions in heavy-ion collisions. The equilibrium properties of the quarkonia are taken from in-medium spectral functions which are schematically constrained by euclidean correlators from lattice QCD. The initial conditions for the rate equation (heavy-flavor cross sections, nuclear absorption) and the thermal evolution are constrained by data as available. After fixing two free parameters to describe charmonium data at SPS and RHIC, the predictions for LHC are discussed in light of recent data.
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@article{arxiv.1210.6583,
title = {In-Medium Quarkonia at SPS, RHIC and LHC},
author = {Xingbo Zhao and Andrew Emerick and Ralf Rapp},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1210.6583},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 eps figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Quark Matter 2012 conference (Washington, DC, Aug. 13-18, 2012)