Heavy Quark Potentials and Quarkonia Binding

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent lattice QCD studies on how inter-quark forces change at finite temperature and discusses their implications for quarkonium binding in potential models.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent progress in understanding in-medium quark interactions and applies these insights to quarkonium binding models.

Findings

In-medium modifications of inter-quark forces are characterized at finite temperature.

Implications for quarkonium stability and binding energies are discussed.

Lattice QCD results inform potential model applications.

Abstract

I review recent progress in studying in-medium modification of inter-quark forces at finite temperature in lattice QCD. Some applications to the problem of quarkonium binding in potential models is also discussed.