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arxiv: 0806.3341 · v1 · submitted 2008-06-20 · ✦ hep-ph · nucl-ex· nucl-th

Heavy Flavor in the sQGP

classification ✦ hep-ph nucl-exnucl-th
keywords heavy-quarkdiffusionflavorheavyinteractionlqcdsectoragreement
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We attempt a unified treatment of heavy quarkonia and heavy-quark diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Our approach is based on finite-temperature T-matrices with interaction potentials estimated from the heavy-quark internal energy computed in thermal lattice QCD (lQCD). In the charmonium sector S-wave bound states (J/\psi, \eta_c) survive up to temperatures of ~2 T_c, not inconsistent with constraints from euclidean correlation functions in lQCD. In the open-heavy flavor sector, the T-matrix interaction reduces heavy-quark diffusion substantially, leading to fair agreement with single-electron spectra at RHIC and suggestive for a small viscosity-to-entropy ratio close to T_c.

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