Charmonium and bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions

Details Charmonium and bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions Charmonium and bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions

2008-07-16

arxiv.org/abs/0807.2470v3

Prog.Part.Nucl.Phys.65:209-266,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

75 pages, 51 figures, revised version, references added

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.ppnp.2010.07.002

We review the present status in the theoretical and phenomenological understanding of charmonium and bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions. We start by recapitulating the basic notion of "anomalous quarkonium suppression" in heavy-ion collisions and its recent amendments involving regeneration reactions. We then survey in some detail concepts and ingredients needed for a comprehensive approach to utilize heavy quarkonia as a probe of hot and dense matter. The theoretical discussion encompasses recent lattice QCD computations of quarkonium properties in the Quark-Gluon Plasma, their interpretations using effective potential models, inelastic rate calculations and insights from analyses of electromagnetic plasmas. We illustrate the powerful techniques of thermodynamic Green functions (T-matrices) to provide a general framework for implementing microscopic properties of heavy quarkonia into a kinetic theory of suppression and regeneration reactions. The theoretical concepts are tested in applications to heavy-ion reactions at SPS, RHIC and LHC. We outline perspectives for future experiments on charmonium and bottomonium production in heavy-ion collisions over a large range in energy (FAIR, RHIC-II and LHC). These are expected to provide key insights into hadronic matter under extreme conditions using quarkonium observables.

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