Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-04-07
Phys.Rev.D78:014017,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
42 pages, 16 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.014017
In a framework that makes close contact with modern effective field theories for non-relativistic bound states at zero temperature, we study the real-time evolution of a static quark-antiquark pair in a medium of gluons and light quarks at finite temperature. For temperatures ranging from values larger to smaller than the inverse distance of the quark and antiquark, 1/r, and at short distances, we derive the potential between the two static sources, and calculate their energy and thermal decay width. Two mechanisms contribute to the thermal decay width: the imaginary part of the gluon self energy induced by the Landau damping phenomenon, and the quark-antiquark color singlet to color octet thermal break up. Parametrically, the first mechanism dominates for temperatures such that the Debye mass is larger than the binding energy, while the latter, which we quantify here for the first time, dominates for temperatures such that the Debye mass is smaller than the binding energy. If the Debye mass is of the same order as 1/r, our results are in agreement with a recent calculation of the static Wilson loop at finite temperature. For temperatures smaller than 1/r, we find new contributions to the potential, both real and imaginary, which may be relevant to understand the onset of heavy quarkonium dissociation in a thermal medium.
Brambilla Nora
Ghiglieri Jacopo
Petreczky Peter
Vairo Antonio
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