Dynamical Evolution of Heavy Quarkonia in a Deconfined Medium

Mar, 2011
5 pages
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Report number:
  • BI-TP-2011-08

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate some consequences of the possibility that heavy quarkonia in a quark-gluon plasma possess different (quasi-) bound states, between which transitions are possible. In particular, we show that the time-evolution eigenstates in the medium are mixtures of the vacuum eigenstates. This leads to abundance ratios of quarkonia that differ from those predicted in statistical models or in the sequential-melting picture.
Note:
  • 5 pages, 3 figures
  • 25.75.Nq
  • 14.40.Pq
  • 12.38.Mh
  • quarkonium: heavy
  • quark gluon: plasma
  • model: statistical
  • deconfinement
  • bound state
  • density matrix
  • evolution equation