Heavy flavours in quark-gluon plasma
Pre-published on:
February 23, 2017
Published on:
March 24, 2017
Abstract
Recent progresses in lattice studies of heavy quark and quarkonium at non-zero temperature are discussed. Formulating a tail of spectral functions as a transport coefficient allows lattice determination of momentum diffusion coefficient (κ) for charm quark in the heavy quark mass limit and lattice determination of heavy quark/heavy anti-quark chemical equilibration rate in NRQCD. Quenched lattice study on a large volume gives κ/T3=1.8⋯3.4 in the continuum limit. A recent study with Nf=2+1 configurations estimates the charmonium chemical equilibration rate (Γchem) at T=400 MeV with M∼1.5 GeV, Γ−1chem∼150 fm/c. Earlier results from the two studies (with different lattice setups and with different Bayesian priors) which calculate bottomonium correlators using NRQCD and employ Bayesian method to calculate spectral functions are summarized: Υ(1S) survives upto T∼1.9Tc and excited states of Υ are sequentially suppressed. The spectral functions of χb1 channel shows a Bayesian prior dependence of its thermal behavior: the χb1 spectral function with MEM prior shows melting above Tc but that with a new Bayesian prior hints survival of χb1 upto ∼1.6Tc. Preliminary results from the efforts to understand the difference in the behavior of χb1 spectral function are given.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.256.0007
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