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The FASTSUM Collaboration has calculated several quantities relevant for QCD studies at non-zero temperature using the lattice technique. We report here our results for the (i) interquark potential in charmonium; (ii) bottomonium spectral…
Quarkonia, which are bound states of a heavy quark and antiquark, play a key role in probing the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The dynamics of quarkonia in the QGP are encoded in their finite-temperature spectral functions. In this work, we…
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We present results from a high precision NRQCD simulation of the quenched $\Upsilon$ system at $\beta = 6$. We demonstrate a variety of important lattice techniques, including the perturbative improvement of actions, tadpole improvement,…
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We present an overview of bottomonium spectral functions in the quark-gluon plasma, obtained by the FASTSUM collaboration, using lattice QCD simulations with two light quark flavours on anisotropic lattices. The bottom quark is treated…
We update our results for the heavy-heavy spectrum at $\beta$ = 5.7, using NRQCD. This includes a scaling comparison with the $\Upsilon$ spectrum at $\beta$ = 6.0 and first lattice predictions for the $B_c$ spectrum.
We present results for the thermal photon emissivity of the quark-gluon plasma derived from spatially transverse vector correlators computed in lattice QCD at a temperature of 250 MeV. The analysis of the spectral functions, performed at…
I review recent progress in relating meson spectral function to imaginary time correlation function at finite temperature calculated on isotropic as well as on anisotropic lattices. Special attention is payed for the lattice artifacts…
We present new results on $\Upsilon$ and $J/\Psi$ spectroscopy using Lattice NRQCD. Charmonium results at quenched $\beta$ = 5.7 show agreement with experiment within understood systematic errors. We compare bottomonium results at quenched…
We study charmonium correlators in pseudoscalar and vector channels at finite temperature using lattice QCD simulation in the quenched approximation. Anisotropic lattices are used in order to have sufficient numbers of degrees of freedom in…
For weakly bound quarkonia, we rederive the next-to-leading order cross sections of quarkonium dissociation by partons that include the hard thermal loop (HTL) resummation. Our results calculated with an effective vertex from the…
We analyze the meson correlator in the spatial direction at finite temperature. To achieve fine resolution in the spatial direction, we use an anisotropic lattice with the standard Wilson plaquette gauge action and the $O(a)$ improved…
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…
The behavior of bottomonium state correlators at non-zero temperature, $140.4 (\beta = 6.664) \le T \le 221 (\beta = 7.280)$ (MeV), where the transition temperature is $154(9)$ (MeV), is studied, using lattice NRQCD on $48^3 \times 12$…