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Quark-Gluon Plasma: from lattice simulations to experimental results

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2015-06-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Theoretical studies of quarkonia can elucidate some of the important properties of the quark--gluon plasma, the state of matter realised when the temperature exceeds 150 MeV, currently probed by heavy-ion collisions experiments at BNL and the LHC. We report on our results of lattice studies of bottomonia for temperatures in the range 100 MeV < T < 450 MeV, introducing and discussing the methodologies we have applied. Of particular interest is the analysis of the spectral functions, where Bayesian methods borrowed and adapted from nuclear and condensed matter physics have proven very successful.

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@article{arxiv.1403.5183,
  title  = {Quark-Gluon Plasma: from lattice simulations to experimental results},
  author = {G. Aarts and C. Allton and A. Kelly and J. -I. Skullerud and S. Kim and T. Harris and S. M. Ryan and M. P. Lombardo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.5183},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 5 figures, invited talk at "Cortona 2013", October 28 - 31 2013, Cortona, Italy