String breaking and quarkonium dissociation at finite temperatures

May, 2001
8 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 514 (2001) 57-62
e-Print:
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