Thermodynamics of Heavy Quarkonium in a Bayesian Holographic QCD model

TL;DR

This paper develops a Bayesian holographic QCD model using lattice data to analyze how heavy quarkonium properties change with temperature and chemical potential, revealing dissociation behaviors in extreme conditions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Bayesian holographic QCD framework calibrated with lattice data to systematically study heavy quarkonium thermodynamics.

Findings

Higher temperature and chemical potential promote quarkonium dissociation.

Entropy and entropy force increase with temperature and chemical potential.

Binding energy decreases, indicating easier dissociation at extreme conditions.

Abstract

Leveraging high-precision lattice QCD data on the equation of state and baryon number susceptibility at vanishing chemical potential, we construct a Bayesian holographic QCD model and systematically analyze the thermodynamic properties of heavy quarkonium in QCD matter under varying temperatures and chemical potentials. We compute the quark-antiquark interquark distance, potential energy, entropy, binding energy, and internal energy. We present detailed posterior distribution results of the thermodynamic quantities of heavy quarkonium, including maximum a posteriori (MAP) value estimates and 95\% confidence levels (CL). Through numerical simulations and theoretical analysis, we find that increasing temperature and chemical potential decrease the quark distance, thereby facilitating the dissociation of heavy quarkonium and leading to suppressed potential energy. The increase in temperature and chemical potential also raise the entropy and entropy force, further accelerating the dissociation of heavy quarkonium. The calculated results of binding energy indicate that higher temperature and chemical potential enhance the tendency of heavy quarkonium to dissociate into free quarks. Internal energy also increases with rising temperature and chemical potential. These findings provide significant theoretical insights into the properties of strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions and lay a solid foundation for the interpretation and validation of future experimental data. Finally, we also present the results for the free energy, entropy, and internal energy of single quark.