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On temperature dependence of quarkonium correlators

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-07-22 v1

Abstract

I discuss the temperature dependence of quarkonium correlators calculated in lattice QCD. I show that the dominant source of the temperature dependence comes from the zero mode contribution, while the the temperature dependence associated with melting of bound states is quite small. I study the zero mode contribution quantitatively for different quark masses and show that it is well described by a quasi-particle model with temperature dependent heavy quark mass. As a byproduct an estimate of the medium dependence of the heavy quark mass is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.0810.0258,
  title  = {On temperature dependence of quarkonium correlators},
  author = {P. Petreczky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.0258},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

8 pages, LaTeX, uses svepj.clo, svjour.cls, 8 figures