Journal
PHYSICS LETTERS B
Volume 796, Issue -, Pages 20-25Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.07.032
Keywords
Quark-gluon plasma; Heavy-quark potential; Bottomonium
Funding
- U.S. National Science Foundation [PHY-1614484]
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The in-medium color potential is a fundamental quantity for understanding the properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP). Open and hidden heavy-flavor (HF) production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs) has been found to be a sensitive probe of this potential. Here we utilize a previously developed quarkonium transport approach in combination with insights from open HF diffusion to extract the color-singlet potential from experimental results on Upsilon production in URHICs. Starting from a parameterized trial potential, we evaluate the Upsilon transport parameters and conduct systematic fits to available data for the centrality dependence of ground and excited states at RHIC and the LHC. The best fits and their statistical significance are converted into a temperature dependent potential. Including nonperturbative effects in the dissociation rate guided from open HF phenomenology, we extract a rather strongly coupled potential with substantial remnants of the long-range confining force in the QGP. (C) 2019 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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