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We present the finite temperature spectra of both bottomonium and charmonium, obtained from a consistent lattice QCD based potential picture. Starting point is the complex in-medium potential extracted on full QCD lattices with dynamical…
It has long been understood that the inclusion of temperature in the perturbative treatment of quantum field theories leads to complications that are not present at zero temperature. In these proceedings we report on the non-perturbative…
We here measure, for the first time, adjoint chromoelectric correlators at finite temperatures that encode the diffusion of quarkonium in the medium. Understanding the dynamics of quarkonium in the QGP plays an essential role in…
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