The heavy-quark potential in an anisotropic plasma

2007/11/30 by Adrian Dumitru, Yun Guo, Michael Strickland · 10 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.02.048

published as Phys.Lett.B662:37-42,2008 · 8 pages, 2 figures, final version to appear in PLB, 1 reference added, numerical constant in Eq.(10) corrected

arxiv created 2008/03/06 · openalex publication_date 2008/03/06 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

We determine the hard-loop resummed propagator in an anisotropic QCD plasma in general covariant gauges and define a potential between heavy quarks from the Fourier transform of its static limit. We find that there is stronger attraction on distance scales on the order of the inverse Debye mass for quark pairs aligned along the direction of anisotropy than for transverse alignment.

Citations

• Anomalous Transport Processes in Anisotropically Expanding Quark-Gluon Plasmas
• Thermal imaginary part of a real-time static potential from classical lattice gauge theory simulations

Cited by

• Electrical conductivity of an anisotropic quark gluon plasma: A quasiparticle approach
• Three-loop HTLpt thermodynamics at finite temperature and chemical potential
• Probing strongly coupled anisotropic plasma
• Quarkonium states in a complex-valued potential
• Thermodynamics and instabilities of a strongly coupled anisotropic plasma
• QUARKONIA IN THE QUARK GLUON PLASMA
• Dissociation of Quarkonium in Hot and Dense Media in an Anisotropic Plasma in the Nonrelativistic Quark Model
• Jet quenching and broadening: The transport coefficientqin an anisotropic plasma
• Color-electric conductivity in a viscous quark-gluon plasma *
• Shear viscosity η to electrical conductivity σel ratio for an anisotropic QGP

Related

• The effect of anisotropy on the formation of heavy quarkonium bound states
• The complex heavy quark potential in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma
• Quarkonium states in an anisotropic QCD plasma
• Heavy Quarks in Strongly Coupled Non-Conformal Plasmas with Anisotropy
• Complex Heavy Quarkonium Potential in an Anisotropic Collisional Quark-Gluon Plasma