Quarkonium formation in statistical and kinetic models
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-01-07 v1
Abstract
I review the present status of two related models addressing scenarios in which the formation of heavy quarkonium states in high energy heavy ion collisions proceed via "off-diagonal" combinations of a quark and an antiquark. The physical process involved belongs to a general class of quark "recombination", although technically the recombining quarks here were never previously bound in a quarkonium state. Features of these processes relevant as a signature of color deconfinement are discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0504226,
title = {Quarkonium formation in statistical and kinetic models},
author = {R. L. Thews},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0504226},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 8 figures, based on invited plenary talk at Hard Probes 2004, Ericeira, Portugal, November 3-11, 2004, to appear in the proceedings