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Quarkonium Binding and Dissociation: The Spectral Analysis of the QGP

Helmut Satz

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0609197

Abstract

In statistical QCD, the thermal properties of the quark-gluon plasma can be determined by studying the in-medium behaviour of heavy quark bound states. The results can be applied to quarkonium production in high energy nuclear collisions, if these indeed form a fully equilibrated QGP. Modifications could arise if an initial charm excess persists in the collision evolution and causes quarkonium regeneration at hadronization.

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