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Heavy quark bound states in a quark-gluon plasma: dissociation and recombination

Jean-Paul Blaizot
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Davide de Boni
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Pietro Faccioli
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Giovanni Garberoglio
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Résumé

We present a comprehensive approach to the dynamics of heavy quarks in a quark gluon plasma, including the possibility of bound state formation and dissociation. In this exploratory paper, we restrict ourselves to the case of an Abelian plasma, but the extension of the techniques used to the non Abelian case is straightforward. A chain of well defined approximations leads eventually to a generalized Langevin equation, where the force and the noise terms are determined from a correlation function of the equilibrium plasma, and depend explicitly on the configuration of the heavy quarks. We solve the Langevin equation for various initial conditions, various numbers of heavy quark-antiquark pairs, and various temperatures of the plasma. Results of simulations illustrate various expected phenomena: dissociation of bound states as a result of combined effects of screening of the potential and collisions with the plasma constituent, formation of bound pairs (recombination) that occurs when enough heavy quarks are present in the system.

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cea-01197142 , version 1 (11-09-2015)

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Jean-Paul Blaizot, Davide de Boni, Pietro Faccioli, Giovanni Garberoglio. Heavy quark bound states in a quark-gluon plasma: dissociation and recombination. 2015. ⟨cea-01197142⟩
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