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Quarkonia and QGP studies

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-06-14 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We summarize results of recent studies of heavy quarkonia correlators and spectral functions at finite temperatures from lattice QCD and systematic T-matrix studies using QCD motivated finite-temperature potentials. We argue that heavy quarkonia dissociation shall occur in the temperature range 1.2Td/Tc1.51.2 \le T_d/T_c \le 1.5 by the interplay of both screening and absorption in the strongly correlated plasma medium. We discuss these effects on the quantum mechanical evolution of quarkonia states within a time-dependent harmonic oscillator model with complex oscillator strength and compare the results with data for RAA/RAACNMR_{\rm AA}/R_{\rm AA}^{\rm CNM} from RHIC and SPS experiments. We speculate whether the suppression pattern of the rather precise NA60 data from In-In collisions may be related to the recently discovered X(3872) state. Theoretical support for this hypothesis comes from the cluster expansion of the plasma Hamiltonian for heavy quarkonia in a strongly correlated medium.

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@article{arxiv.1106.2519,
  title  = {Quarkonia and QGP studies},
  author = {D. Blaschke and C. Pena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.2519},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

6 pages, 5 figures, contribution to the proceedings of QUARKONIUM 2010: Three Days Of Quarkonium Production in pp and pA Collisions, 29-31 July 2010, Palaiseau, France

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