https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s2005-02327-5
Theoretical Physics
Heavy quark potential and quarkonia dissociation rates
1
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
2
Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, JINR Dubna, 141980, Dubna, Russia
* e-mail: blaschke@theory.gsi.de
Received:
9
May
2005
Revised:
8
June
2005
Published online:
15
July
2005
Quenched lattice data for the interaction (in terms of heavy quark free energies) in the color-singlet channel at finite temperatures are fitted and used within the non-relativistic Schrödinger equation formalism to obtain binding energies and scattering phase shifts for the lowest eigenstates in the charmonium and bottomonium systems in a hot gluon plasma. The partial dissociation rate due to the Bhanot-Peskin process is calculated using different assumptions for the gluon distribution function, including free massless gluons, massive gluons, and massive damped gluons. It is demonstrated that a temperature dependent gluon mass has an essential influence on the heavy quarkonia dissociation, but that this process alone is insufficient to describe the heavy quarkonia dissociation rates.
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