String breaking and quarkonium dissociation at finite temperatures
May, 20018 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 514 (2001) 57-62
e-Print:
- hep-ph/0105234 [hep-ph]
Report number:
- BI-TP-2001-08
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Abstract:
Recent lattice studies of string breaking in QCD with dynamical quarks determine the in-medium temperature dependence of the heavy quark potential. Comparing this to the binding energies of different quarkonium states, we check if these can decay into open charm/beauty in a confined hadronic medium. Our studies indicate in particular that the chi_c and the psi dissociate into open charm below the deconfinement point.Note:
- 8 pages LaTeX, 4 figures Report-no: BI-TP 2001/08
- charmonium
- bottomonium
- quarkonium: dissociation
- finite temperature
- binding energy
- potential: confinement
- string tension
- quarkonium: mass
- quantum chromodynamics
- lattice field theory
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