Speaker
Dr
Miguel Ángel Escobedo Espinosa
(University of Jyväskylä)
Description
Heavy quarkonium related observables are very useful to obtain information about the medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The interaction of charmonium or bottomonium with the hot QCD medium created in these collisions can be efficiently described with the use of non-relativistic Effective Field Theories. In this talk I will review recent progress in understanding quarkonium dynamics in a thermal medium with the use of potential non-relativistic QCD (pNRQCD). First I will discuss the medium modifications of the decay width and the binding energy. Using pNRQCD power counting it is possible to identify in which temperature regimes a potential model can describe these modifications and what is the dominant physical process behind the thermal corrections in each case. After that I will discuss the combination of pNRQCD with open quantum systems techniques. This allows to make predictions about the nuclear modification factor that can be compared with experimental measurements.
Primary author
Dr
Miguel Ángel Escobedo Espinosa
(University of Jyväskylä)
