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The NRQCD $\Upsilon$ spectrum at non-zero temperature using Backus-Gilbert regularisations

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2025-02-06 v1

Abstract

Understanding how the properties of heavy mesons change as temperature increases is crucial for gaining valuable insights into the quark-gluon plasma. Information about meson masses and decay widths is encoded in the meson spectral function, which, in principle, can be extracted from Euclidean correlation functions via generalised Laplace transformations. However, this inverse problem is ill-posed for lattice correlation functions and requires regularisation. In this work, we present the latest results for bottomonium spectral functions obtained within the lattice NRQCD framework using the Backus-Gilbert regularisation, along with two other variants, one of which is commonly referred to as the HLT method. Our analysis employs Generation 2L anisotropic lattice configurations produced by the \textsc{Fastsum} collaboration.

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@article{arxiv.2502.03060,
  title  = {The NRQCD $\Upsilon$ spectrum at non-zero temperature using Backus-Gilbert regularisations},
  author = {Antonio Smecca and Gert Aarts and Chris Allton and Ryan Bignell and Timothy J. Burns and Benjamin Jäger and Rachel Horohan D'Arcy and Seyong Kim and Maria-Paola Lombardo and Ben Page and Sinéad M. Ryan and Tom Spriggs and Jon-Ivar Skullerud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.03060},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 2 figures, Contribution to The 41st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (LATTICE2024), 28 July - 3 August 2024, Liverpool, UK

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