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The problem of quarkonium production in heavy ion collisions presents a set of unique theoretical challenges -- from the relevant production mechanism of $J/\psi$ and $\Upsilon$ to the relative significance of distinct cold and hot nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-23 Yiannis Makris , Ivan Vitev

Recent open quantum system studies showed that quarkonium time evolution inside the quark-gluon plasma is determined by transport coefficients that are defined in terms of a gauge invariant correlator of two chromoelectric field operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Xiaojun Yao

This is a theoretical overview of quarkonium production in relativistic heavy ion collisions given for the Hard Probes 2024 conference in Nagasaki. The talk focuses on the application of the open quantum system framework and the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Xiaojun Yao

In this study, we explore the properties of quarkonia in a hot QCD medium using a newly proposed collision kernel that consistently incorporates the particle's momentum dependence into the relaxation time scale of the medium. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Sunny Kumar Singh , Samapan Bhadury , Ritesh Ghosh , Manu Kurian

We investigate the real-time evolution of quarkonium bound states in a quark-gluon plasma in one dimension using an improved QCD based stochastic potential model. This model describes the quarkonium dynamics in terms of a Schr\"odinger…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-07 Shiori Kajimoto , Yukinao Akamatsu , Masayuki Asakawa , Alexander Rothkopf

We report on progress in the nonperturbative understanding of quarkonium dynamics inside a thermal plasma. The time evolution of small-size quarkonium is governed by two-point correlation functions of chromoelectric fields dressed with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Govert Nijs , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Xiaojun Yao

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

We present a perturbative QCD factorization formalism for the production of heavy quarkonia of large transverse momentum $p_T$ at collider energies, which includes both the leading power (LP) and next-to-leading power (NLP) contributions to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-12 Zhong-Bo Kang , Jian-Wei Qiu , George Sterman

We review weakly-bound heavy quarkonium systems using effective field theories of QCD. We concentrate on potential Non-Relativistic QCD, which provides with a well founded connection between QCD and descriptions of the heavy quarkonium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Antonio Pineda

We compute the heavy quarkonium complex potential in an arbitrary magnetic field strength generated in the relativistic heavy-ion collision. First, the one-loop gluon polarization tensor is obtained in the presence of an external, constant,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-03 Jobin Sebastian , Lata Thakur , Hiranmaya Mishra , Najmul Haque

We study the states of $c\bar{c}$ and $b\bar{b}$ system in a non-relativistic a spin dependent potential model at finite temperature. The potential incorporate color screening effect through a parameter $\mu$. The parameter $\mu$ along with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-10 Zunara Hussain , Faisal Akram , Bilal Masud

Phenomenological potentials describe the quarkonium systems like Charmonia, Bottomonia and $B_c$ Meson. They give a good accuracy for the mass spectra. In the present work we extend one of our previous works in the central case by adding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-21 Hesham Mansour , Ahmed Gamal , M. Abolmahasen

Suppression of open heavy quarks and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions are among the most informative probes of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Interpreting the full wealth of data obtained from the collision events requires a precise theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-01 Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Xiaojun Yao

The objective of this paper is to assess the current theoretical understanding of the extensive set of quarkonium observables (for both charmonia and bottomonia) that have been attained in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions over two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Ralf Rapp , Xiaojian Du

The paper contains a systematic, model-independent treatment of electric dipole (E1) transitions in heavy quarkonium. Within the effective field theory framework of potential non-relativistic QCD (pNRQCD), we derive the complete set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-09 Nora Brambilla , Piotr Pietrulewicz , Antonio Vairo

The spin-dependent operators for heavy quarkonium hybrids have been recently obtained in a nonrelativistic effective field theory approach up to next-to-leading order in the heavy-quark mass expansion. In the effective field theory for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-07 Nora Brambilla , Wai Kin Lai , Jorge Segovia , Jaume Tarrús Castellà

The spin alignment of $J/\psi$ with respect to event plane in relativistic heavy ion collisions exhibits a significant signal. We propose a possible mechanism for spin alignment through spin dependent dissociation of quarkonia in a vortical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Yuhao Liang , Shu Lin

We develop a quantum kinetic theory for QCD, which incorporates all leading order collision terms. At lowest order in gradient expansion, it reproduces the spin-averaged Boltzmann equation with both elastic and inelastic collisions. At next…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-05 Shu Lin

The observation of unpolarized quarkonium production in high energy pp collisions, at mid rapidity, implies a significant violation of the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) velocity scaling rules. A precise experimental confirmation of this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Pietro Faccioli , Carlos Lourenco

Previous studies have shown that a gauge-invariant correlation function of two chromoelectric fields connected by a straight timelike adjoint Wilson line encodes crucial information about quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that determines the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-16 Govert Nijs , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Xiaojun Yao