Conveners
HI: Onia I
- Alexei Bazavov (Michigan State University)
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Dr Enrico Scomparin (INFN Torino, Italy)2/1/17, 4:00 PMThe study of the production of quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions represents one of the most important tools for the characterization of the Quark-Gluon Plasma. In particular, the screening of the color force in a deconfined medium is predicted to lead to a suppression of the production of charmonium and bottomonium states with respect to the yields observed in pp collisions. At the same time,...Go to contribution page
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Dr Alexander Rothkopf (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University)2/1/17, 4:25 PMHeavy quarkonium presents a unique probe of the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. While Bottomonium is expected to act as a test particle traversing the medium in the collision center, recent measurements of finite J/ψ flow by the ALICE collaboration hint at the participation of the charm quarks in the collectivity of the bulk. Here we present our recent...Go to contribution page
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Dr Johannes Heinrich Weber (Technische Universität München)2/1/17, 4:50 PMI discuss lattice calculations of the Polyakov loop and of Polyakov loop correlators for QCD with 2+1 flavors and almost physical quark masses using the highly improved staggered quark action (HISQ). I elucidate how the Polyakov loop and related observables behave in the crossover region and how these observables probe the deconfinement aspects of the crossover. I examine the short- and...Go to contribution page