The widths of quarkonia in quark gluon plasma

Details The widths of quarkonia in quark gluon plasma The widths of quarkonia in quark gluon plasma

2007-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3770v2

Phys.Rev.C76:044907,2007

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

7 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables, version to be published in Phys. Rev. C

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevC.76.044907

Recent lattice calculations showed that the quarkonia will survive beyond the phase transition temperature, and will dissolve at different temperatures depending on the type of the quarkonium. In this work, we calculate the thermal width of the quarkonium at finite temperature before it dissolves into open heavy quarks. The input of the calculation are the parton quarkonium dissociation cross section to NLO in QCD, the quarkonium wave function in a temperature-dependent potential from lattice QCD, and a thermal distribution of partons with thermal masses. We find that for the J/psi, the total thermal width above 1.4 Tc becomes larger than 100 to 250 MeV, depending on the effective thermal masses of the quark and gluon, which we take between 400 to 600 MeV. Such a width corresponds to an effective dissociation cross section by gluons between 1.5 to 3.5 mb and by quarks 1 to 2 mb at 1.4 Tc. However, at similar temperatures, we find a much smaller thermal width and effective cross section for the upsilon.

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