We study the free energy of a heavy quark-antiquark pair in a thermal medium. We constuct a simple ansatz for the free energy for two quark flavors motivated by the Debye-H\"uckel theory of screening.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0505193,
title = {Heavy Quark Interactions in Finite Temperature QCD},
author = {S. Digal and O. Kaczmarek and F. Karsch and H. Satz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0505193},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 4 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions, Ericeira, Portugal, Nov. 4-10, 2004