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arxiv: hep-ph/0606147 · v1 · submitted 2006-06-12 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-th

Heavy Quarkonia and Quark Drip Lines in Quark-Gluon Plasma

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keywords quarkbounddissociationdriplinesquarkoniaregiontemperature
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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 $Q\bar Q$ states from the unbound region. The dissociation temperatures of $J/\psi$ and $\chi_b$ in quenched QCD are found to be 1.62$T_c$ and $1.18T_c$ respectively, in good agreement with spectral function analyses. The dissociation temperature of $J/\psi$ in full QCD with 2 flavors is found to be 1.42$T_c$. 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 and higher.

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