Anisotropic excited bottomonia from a basis of smeared operators

Abstract

Bottomonia play a crucial role in our understanding of the quark gluon plasma. We present lattice non-relativistic QCD calculations of bottomonia at temperatures in the range $T\in [47,380]$ MeV using the Fastsum Generation 2L anisotropic $N_f=2+1$ ensembles. The use of a basis of smeared operators allows the extraction of excited-state masses at zero temperature and an investigation of their thermal properties at non-zero temperature. We find that the ground state signal is substantially improved by this variational approach at finite temperature. We also apply the time-derivative moments approach to the projected or optimal correlation functions at finite temperature.

13 pages, 3 figures, talk presented at the 41st International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory (Lattice2024), July 28th - August 3rd, 2024, Liverpool, UK