The Heavy-quark potential in an anisotropic (viscous) plasma

Nov, 2007
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 662 (2008) 37-42
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We determine the hard-loop resummed propagator in an anisotropic QCD plasma in general covariant gauges and define a potential between heavy quarks from the Fourier transform of its static limit. We find that there is stronger attraction on distance scales on the order of the inverse Debye mass for quark pairs aligned along the direction of anisotropy than for transverse alignment.
  • heavy quark
  • quark quark: potential
  • gluon: exchange
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • plasma: anisotropy
  • gauge: covariance
  • hard thermal loop approximation
  • propagator: renormalization
  • mass: Debye
  • quark: alignment