Transport coefficients from in medium quarkonium dynamics
Abstract
The in medium dynamics of heavy particles are governed by transport coefficients. The heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient, , is an object of special interest in the literature, but one which has proven notoriously difficult to estimate, despite the fact that it has been computed by weak-coupling methods at next-to-leading order accuracy, and by lattice simulations of the pure SU(3) gauge theory. Another coefficient, , has been recently identified. It can be understood as the dispersive counterpart of . Little is known about . Both and are, however, of foremost importance in heavy quarkonium physics as they entirely determine the in and out of equilibrium dynamics of quarkonium in a medium, if the evolution of the density matrix is Markovian, and the motion, quantum Brownian; the medium could be a strongly or weakly coupled plasma. In this paper, using the relation between , and the quarkonium in medium width and mass shift respectively, we evaluate the two coefficients from existing 2+1 flavor lattice QCD data. The resulting range for is consistent with earlier determinations, the one for is the first non-perturbative determination of this quantity.
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@article{arxiv.1903.08063,
title = {Transport coefficients from in medium quarkonium dynamics},
author = {Nora Brambilla and Miguel A. Escobedo and Antonio Vairo and Peter Vander Griend},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.08063},
year = {2019}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures, journal version