https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-008-0827-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Heavy-quark free energies, internal-energy and entropy contributions
Fakultät für Physik, Universität Bielefeld, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
* e-mail: okacz@physik.uni-bielefeld.de
Received:
20
August
2008
Published online:
13
December
2008
We present lattice QCD results on heavy-quark free energies, extract from its temperature dependence the entropy and internal-energy contributions, and discuss the onset of medium effects that lead to screening of static quark–antiquark sources in a thermal medium. The detailed analysis of the temperature and distance dependence of the different contributions indicate the complex non-perturbative nature of strongly interacting matter. We shall discuss the necessity to include those effects in studies on the behavior of heavy quarks, heavy-quark bound states and their dissociation in the quark–gluon plasma phase.
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