Recent developments in heavy flavor probes in lattice QCD

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent progress in lattice QCD studies of heavy flavor probes, focusing on spectral properties, dissociation of heavy quark systems, and heavy quark diffusion, highlighting challenges and advances in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of recent lattice QCD developments in heavy flavor spectroscopy, including new results on quarkonium dissociation and heavy quark diffusion.

Findings

Charm and bottomonium dissociation results

Heavy quark diffusion coefficients

Advances in spectral function extraction methods

Abstract

The analysis of heavy flavor lattice correlation functions to obtain insights into transport phenomena and bound state dissociation patterns is a difficult and interesting challenge from the point of view of lattice QCD spectroscopy. In this contribution to "Hard Probes 2015", the recent developments and advances from different lattice efforts to determine the relevant spectral properties will be reviewed and discussed. The difficulties underlying this line of research will be highlighted and the obtained results assessed. Among others, results on the dissociation of charm systems and bottomonia, as well as the diffusion of heavy quarks will be addressed.