Medium modified heavy quark potential in anisotropic QGP

Statistical QCD predicts that strongly interacting matter undergoes a deconfining transition to a new state, the quark-gluon plasma, in which the colored quarks and gluons are no longer bound to colorless hadrons. With the help of the modern generation particle accelerators, both at BNL RHIC and CERN LHC, it seems possible to create this state of matter in experiments. RHIC experiments have strongly suggested the existence of this new phase of matter showing a strong elliptic flow, from which a very low viscosity to entropy density ratio has been inferred. This suggests that QGP may be a strongly interacting system of quarks and gluons which is also confirmed by the lattice studies of equation of state (EOS)