Theory of Heavy Flavor in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

TL;DR

This paper develops a theoretical framework to analyze heavy-quark interactions in the Quark-Gluon Plasma using a self-consistent Brueckner scheme and potential models, linking microscopic interactions to observable phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a self-consistent Brueckner approach with a thermodynamic T-matrix based on potential models to study heavy-flavor physics in the QGP, connecting theory with lattice QCD constraints.

Findings

Relates quarkonium correlators and spectral functions to heavy-flavor transport.

Provides a framework to incorporate lattice QCD constraints into heavy-quark phenomenology.

Enhances understanding of heavy-quark dynamics in the QGP environment.

Abstract

Heavy-quark interactions in the Quark-Gluon Plasma are analyzed in terms of a selfconsistent Brueckner scheme using a thermodynamic $T$-matrix based on a potential model. The interrelations between quarkonium correlators, spectral functions and zero-modes, and open heavy-flavor transport and susceptibilities are elaborated. Independent constraints from thermal lattice QCD can be used to improve predictions for heavy-quark phenomenology in heavy-ion collisions.