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Bottomonium production in heavy ion collisions is modified compared with any simple extrapolation from elementary collisions. This modification is most likely caused by the presence of a deconfined system of quarks and gluons for times of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-11 P. Petreczky , C. Young

We calculate the elliptic flow of bottomonia produced in Pb$\,+\,$Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02$ TeV. We consider temperature-dependent decay widths for the anisotropic escape of various bottomonium states and observe that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-09 Partha Pratim Bhaduri , Mubarak Alqahtani , Nicolas Borghini , Amaresh Jaiswal , Michael Strickland

The strong suppression of heavy quarkonia is a good indicator that one has generated a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in an ultrarelativistic heavy ion collision. Recent advancements in first principles calculations of the heavy quark potential…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Brandon Krouppa , Alexander Rothkopf , Michael Strickland

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the production of heavy quarks at large transverse momenta is strongly suppressed compared to proton-proton collisions. In addition an unexpectedly large azimuthal anisotropy was observed for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen A. Bass

We develop a set of coupled Boltzmann equations to describe the dynamical evolution of heavy quarks and quarkonia inside the quark-gluon plasma. The quarkonium dissociation and recombination terms are calculated from pNRQCD. Their interplay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen Bass , Berndt Müller

Deconfined QCD matter in heavy-ion collisions has been a topic of paramount interest for many years. Quarkonia suppression in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-21 Captain R. Singh , S. Ganesh , M. Mishra

We had been gradually working towards building a comprehensive quarkonia suppression formalism to explain all 3 dependencies of quarkonium suppression obtained from heavy-ion collision experiments. We present here the improved version of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-17 Nikhil Hatwar , Captain R. Singh , S. Ganesh , M. Mishra

We compute the suppression of the bottomonia states Upsilon(1S), Upsilon(2S), Upsilon(3S), chi_b(1P), chi_b(2P), and chi_b(3P) states in Large Hadron Collider (LHC) sqrt(s_NN)) = 5.023 TeV Pb-Pb collisions. For the background evolution we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-31 Brandon Krouppa , Michael Strickland

We compute for the first time the suppression of bottomonia in a strongly coupled QGP and compare the results to those from a weakly coupled QGP. Using imaginary time techniques we numerically determine the real and imaginary parts of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 N. N. Barnard , W. A. Horowitz

The primary purpose of studying quarkonium production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is to understand the properties of the quark-gluon plasma. At various collision systems, measurements of quarkonium states of different binding…

We explore the system size dependence of heavy-quark-QGP interaction by studying the heavy flavor meson suppression and elliptic flow in Pb-Pb, Xe-Xe, Ar-Ar and O-O collisions at the LHC. The space-time evolution of the QGP is simulated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Shu-Qing Li , Wen-Jing Xing , Xiang-Yu Wu , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

I review recent calculations of the suppression of bottomonium states in heavy ion collisions. A non-relativistic potential is used which is complex valued. This allows one to extract the binding energies and decay widths of the ground and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-14 Michael Strickland

Using the potential non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (pNRQCD) effective field theory, we derive a Lindblad equation for the evolution of the heavy-quarkonium reduced density matrix that is accurate to next-to-leading order (NLO) in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Nora Brambilla , Miguel Ángel Escobedo , Ajaharul Islam , Michael Strickland , Anurag Tiwari , Antonio Vairo , Peter Vander Griend

In this proceedings contribution, I review recent work that aims to provide a more comprehensive and systematic understanding of bottomonium dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma using an open quantum system (OQS) approach that is applied in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Michael Strickland

Quarkonium production has been studied extensively in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments to understand the properties of the quark gluon plasma. The experimental results on the yield modification in heavy-ion collisions relative…

The thermal suppression of heavy quark bound states represents an ideal observable for determining if one has produced a quark-gluon plasma in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. In recent years, a paradigm shift has taken place in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Brandon Krouppa , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Michael Strickland

We present new results for the suppression of high transverse momentum charmonium [$J/\psi, \psi(2S)$] and bottomonium [$\Upsilon(1S),\Upsilon(2S),\Upsilon(3S)$] states in Pb+Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. Our theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Samuel Aronson , Evan Borras , Brunel Odegard , Rishi Sharma , Ivan Vitev

Quarkonium production in high-energy hadronic collisions provides a fundamental test of QCD. Its modification in a nuclear medium is a sensitive probe of the space-time temperature profile and transport properties of the QGP, yielding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Ivan Vitev

We present a comprehensive study of $\Upsilon(nS)$ ($n$ = 1, 2, 3) production in proton-proton ($pp$) collisions at various LHC energies and rapidity ranges within the framework of leading order non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-20 Biswarup Paul

We study how the inclusion of energy dependence as dictated by quantum chromodynamic (QCD) small-$x$ evolution equations affects key observables in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Specifically, we incorporate JIMWLK evolution into…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-20 Heikki Mäntysaari , Björn Schenke , Chun Shen , Wenbin Zhao