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Charmonium in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma

Daphne Levin-Plotnik, Benjamin Svetitsky

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9503305

Abstract

We present a model of charmonium as two heavy quarks propagating classically in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma. The quarks interact via a static, color-dependent potential and also suffer collisions with the plasma particles. We calculate the radiation width of the color octet state (for fixed, classical q q separation) and find that it is long-lived provided a finite gluon mass is used to provide a threshold energy.

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