Charm and beauty in the deconfined plasma from quenched lattice QCD

We present continuum extrapolated results of charmonium and bottomonium correlators in the vector channel at several temperatures below and above T-c. The continuum extrapolation jointly performed with the interpolations to have physical values of J/psi and Upsilon masses in the confined phase is based on calculations on several large quenched isotropic lattices using clover-improved Wilson valence fermions carrying different quark masses. The extrapolated lattice correlators are confronted with perturbation theory results incorporating resummed thermal effects around the threshold from potential nonrelativistic QCD (pNRQCD) and vacuum asymptotics above the threshold. An additional transport peak is modeled below the threshold allowing for an estimate of the diffusion coefficients for charm and bottom quarks. We find that charmonium correlators in the vector channel can be well reproduced by perturbative spectral functions above T-c where no resonance peaks for J/psi are needed at and above 1.1T(c), while for bottomonium correlators a resonance peak for Upsilon is still needed up to 1.5T(c). By analyzing the transport contribution to the correlators we fmd that the drag coefficient of a charm quark is larger than that of a bottom quark.

Automated summary

Continuum extrapolated results of charmonium and bottomonium correlators in the vector channel at various temperatures are presented, with comparisons to perturbation theory. The study reveals differences in the behavior of charmonium and bottomonium correlators, including the need for resonance peaks and estimation of diffusion coefficients for charm and bottom quarks. Analysis of transport contributions shows a disparity in drag coefficients between charm and bottom quarks.