https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02309-7
Theoretical Physics
Heavy quark interactions in finite temperature QCD
1
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 113-0033, Tokyo, Japan
2
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
3
Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, NY 11973, Upton, USA
4
CFIF, Instituto Superior Técnico, 1049-001, Lisboa, Portugal
* e-mail: digal@tkyntm.phys.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Received:
17
March
2005
Published online:
8
July
2005
We study the free energy of a heavy quark-antiquark pair in a thermal medium. We construct a simple ansatz for the free energy for two quark flavors motivated by the Debye-Hückel theory of screening.
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