Quarkonium in a non-ideal hot QCD Plasma

Abstract

Substantial anisotropies should occur in the hot expanding QCD plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions due to non-vanishing shear viscosity. We discuss the form of the real-time, hard thermal loop resummed propagator for static gluons in the presence of such anisotropies and the consequences for quarkonium binding. It has been predicted that the propagator develops an imaginary part due to Landau damping at high temperature. This generates a much larger width of quarkonium states than the Appelquist-Politzer vacuum estimate corresponding to decay into three gluons. We argue that this might be observable in heavy-ion collisions as a suppression of the Upsilon(1S) --> e+ e- process. Lastly, we consider the heavy quark (singlet) free energy just above the deconfinement temperature. In the "semi-QGP", F(R) at distances beyond 1/T is expected to be suppressed by 1/N as compared to an ideal plasma.

8 pages, 4 figures; talk given at the Symposium on "High Energy Strong Interactions", aug. 9 -- 13, 2010, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto, Japan; submitted to Prog. Theor. Phys. Suppl

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