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Screened potential and quarkonia properties at high temperatures

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-11-18 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We perform a quark model calculation of the quarkonia bbb\overline{b} and ccc\overline{c} spectra using smooth and sudden string breaking potentials. The screening parameter is scale dependent and can be related to an effective running gluon mass that has a finite infrared fixed point. A temperature dependence for the screening mass is motivated by lattice QCD simulations at finite temperature. Qualitatively different results are obtained for quarkonia properties close to a critical value of the deconfining temperature when a smooth or a sudden string breaking potential is used. In particular, with a sudden string breaking potential quarkonia radii remain almost independent of the temperature up to the critical point, only well above the critical point the radii increase significantly. Such a behavior will impact the phenomenology of quarkonia interactions in medium, in particular for scattering dissociation processes.

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@article{arxiv.0902.3570,
  title  = {Screened potential and quarkonia properties at high temperatures},
  author = {J. Vijande and G. Krein and A. Valcarce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.3570},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

9 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication ijn Eur. Phys. J. A

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