Theory of Quarkonia as Probes for Deconfinement

2025/09/26 by Yao, Xiaojun
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2509.22932

Abstract

This is a plenary talk given at Quark Matter 2025, summarizing recent theoretical developments for the understanding of quarkonium production in relativistic heavy ion collisions and how quarkonium uniquely probes the deconfined phase of QCD matter.

Citations

• Comparative Study of Quarkonium Transport in Hot QCD Matter
• Quarkonium in Quark-Gluon Plasma: Open Quantum System Approaches Re-examined

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