Published 2022 | Version v1
Journal article

Long and short distance behavior of the imaginary part of the heavy-quark potential

  • 1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Wien, 1040 Vienna (Austria)
  • 2. Department of Chemistry and Physics, Hood College, Frederick, MD 21701 (United States)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242 (United States)

Description

The imaginary part of the effective heavy-quark potential can be related to the total in-medium decay width of of heavy quark-antiquark bound states. We extract the static limit of this quantity using classical-statistical simulations of the real-time Yang-Mills dynamics by measuring the temporal decay of Wilson loops. By performing the simulations on finer and larger lattices we are able to show that the nonperturbative results follow the same form as the perturbative ones. For large quark-antiquark separations, we quantify the magnitude of the non-perturbative long-range corrections to the imaginary part of the heavy-quark potential. We present our results for a wide range of temperatures, lattice spacings, and lattice volumes. We also extract approximations for the short-distance behavior of the classical potential.

Availability note (English)

Available from https://www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epjconf/pdf/2022/02/epjconf_vconf2021_04008.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/c57135a6415d423c8ec953b68b1f4a01

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
EPJ. Web of Conferences
Journal Volume
258
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
2100-014X

Conference

Title
International Conference on A Virtual Tribute to Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum
Acronym
cConf21
Dates
2-6 Aug 2021
Place
Stavanger (Norway)