QUARKONIA IN THE QUARK GLUON PLASMA

In this paper, we review recent progress toward understanding the nature of quarkonia in the quark gluon plasma. We review the theory necessary to understand the melting of bound states due to color-screening, including lattice results for the heavy quark potential, lattice results on the correlation functions related to the relevant spectral functions, and the emergence of a complex-valued potential in high-temperature quantum chromo-dynamics. We close with a brief survey of phenomenological models of quarkonium suppression in relativistic heavy ion collisions.