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14–17 Nov 2012
Grand Hotel, Pusan, South Korea
Asia/Seoul timezone

Complex Heavy Quark Potential at Finite Temperature from Gauge/Gravity Duality

16 Nov 2012, 14:20
25m
Sky Hall (22nd) (Grand Hotel)

Sky Hall (22nd)

Grand Hotel

Speaker

Tomoya Hayata (University of Tokyo)

Description

We study the complex potential between a heavy quark and an anti-quark at finite temperature in large Nc and large ’tHooft coupling limit through the gauge/gravity duality[1]. The complex potential at separation r is obtained from a direct analytic continuation of the thermal Wilson loop which is always real in the Euclidean metric. We confirm that there is an imaginary part at finite temperature, which grows as a function of r. We also compare our result with the one from the recent lattice QCD simulation[2]. The gauge/gravity duality suggests the importance of competition between the real part and the imaginary part of the potential for the strongly coupled quark gluon plasma. References [1] K. Nawa, T. Hayata and T. Hatsuda, in progress. [2] A. Rothkopf, T. Hatsuda and S. Sasaki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 162001 (2012).
Keywords Complex heavy quark potential, Gauge/gravity duality, Quark-gluon plasma

Primary author

Dr Kanabu Nawa (Theoretical Research Division, Nishina Center, RIKEN)

Co-authors

Tetsuo Hatsuda (Unknown) Tomoya Hayata (University of Tokyo)

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