Quarkonium formation time in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Abstract

We calculate the quarkonium formation time in relativistic heavy-ion collisions from the space-time correlator of heavy quark vector currents in a hydrodynamics background with the initial nonequilibrium stage expanding only in the longitudinal direction. Using in-medium quarkonia properties determined with the heavy quark potential taken to be the free energy from lattice calculations and the fact that quarkonia can only be formed below their dissociation temperatures due to color screening, we find that ${\rm Y}$(1S), ${\rm Y}$(2S), ${\rm Y}$(3S), $J/\psi$ and ${\psi }^{\prime }$ are formed, respectively, at 1.2, 6.6, 8.8, 5.8, and 11.0 fm/c after the quark pair are produced in central Au+Au collisions at the top energy of Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), and these times become shorter in semi-central collisions. We further show, as an example, that including the effect of formation time enhances appreciably the survivability of ${\rm Y}$(1S) in the produced hot dense matter.

arXiv comment6 pages, 4 figures

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