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Heavy Quarkonia and Quark Drip Lines in Quark-Gluon Plasma...

by Cheuk-yin Wong
Publication Type
Conference Paper
Journal Name
Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Publication Date
Volume
32
Issue
12
Conference Name
International Conference on Strangeness in Quark Matter
Conference Location
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Conference Date
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Using the potential model and thermodynamical quantities obtained in lattice gauge calculations, we determine the spontaneous dissociation temperatures of color-singlet quarkonia and the 'quark drip lines' which separate the region of bound quarkonium states from the unbound region. The dissociation temperatures of J/{psi} and {chi}b in quenched QCD are found to be 1.62Tc and 1.18Tc, respectively, in good agreement with spectral function analyses. The dissociation temperature of J/{psi} in full QCD with two flavors is found to be 1.42Tc. For possible bound quarkonium states with light quarks, the characteristics of the quark drip lines severely limit the stable region close to the phase transition temperature. Bound color-singlet quarkonia with light quarks may exist very near the phase transition temperature if their effective quark mass is of the order of 300-400 MeV.