Speaker
Saumen Datta
Description
While quarkonia (quark-antiquark systems of charm and bottom) provide some of the most interesting probes of a deconfined quark-gluon plasma,
a QCD-based theoretical study of them is nontrivial. An effective
thermal potential can be constructed, but its nature and properties
are very different from the corresponding vacuum potential.
I will critically examine the interpretation and scope of the effective thermal potential. I will present results from our recent study of the potential, and discuss what they say about the behavior of a heavy quark-antiquark pair in the plasma.
| Session | Heavy Ions and QCD |
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