What happens to the Upsilon and eta_b in the quark-gluon plasma? Bottomonium spectral functions from lattice QCD

We study bottomonium spectral functions in the quark-gluon plasma in the Upsilon and eta_b channels, using lattice QCD simulations with two flavours of light quark on highly anisotropic lattices. The bottom quark is treated with nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD). In the temperature range we consider, 0.42...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2011-11
Main Authors: Aarts, Gert, Allton, Chris, Kim, Seyong, Lombardo, Maria Paola, Oktay, Mehmet B, Ryan, Sinead M, Sinclair, D K, Jon-Ivar Skullerud
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Field theory
Flavor (particle physics)
Gluons
Ground state
Lattices
Maximum entropy method
Quantum chromodynamics
Quark-gluon plasma
Quarks
Spectra
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Summary:We study bottomonium spectral functions in the quark-gluon plasma in the Upsilon and eta_b channels, using lattice QCD simulations with two flavours of light quark on highly anisotropic lattices. The bottom quark is treated with nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD). In the temperature range we consider, 0.42 < T/T_c < 2.09, we find that the ground states survive, whereas the excited states are suppressed as the temperature is increased. The position and width of the ground states are compared to analytical effective field theory (EFT) predictions. Systematic uncertainties of the maximum entropy method (MEM), used to construct the spectral functions, are discussed in some detail.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1109.4496