Speaker
Dr
Michael Strickland
(Kent State University)
Description
I will discuss suppression of bottomonia production in relativistic heavy ion collisions due to creation of a short-lived quark gluon plasma (QGP). The suppression of these states is a "smoking gun" for the creation of the QGP since cold nuclear matter effects on bottomonia production at central rapidities are quite small. I will also highlight the fact that, due to their large masses, these states are virtually immune to contamination from recombination of dissociated states which has plagued the analysis of charmonia suppression in relativistic heavy ion collisions. I will present results of state-of-the-art calculations which incorporate complex-valued heavy quark potentials folded together with non-equilibrium spatiotemporal evolution of the QGP provided by (3+1)-dimensional anisotropic viscous hydrodynamics. The obtained results will be compared to experimental data from both RHIC and LHC experimental collaborations.
Primary author
Dr
Michael Strickland
(Kent State University)
