Bottomonium suppression in pNRQCD and open quantum system approach

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Autori principali: Islam, Ajaharul, Brambilla, Nora, Escobedo, Miguel Ángel, Strickland, Michael, Vairo, Antonio, Griend, Peter Vander
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author Islam, Ajaharul
Brambilla, Nora
Escobedo, Miguel Ángel
Strickland, Michael
Vairo, Antonio
Griend, Peter Vander
author_facet Islam, Ajaharul
Brambilla, Nora
Escobedo, Miguel Ángel
Strickland, Michael
Vairo, Antonio
Griend, Peter Vander
contents By employing the potential non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (pNRQCD) effective field theory within an open quantum system framework, we derive a Lindblad equation governing the evolution of the heavy-quarkonium reduced density matrix, accurate to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the ratio of the state's binding energy to the medium's temperature [1]. The derived NLO Lindblad equation provides a more reliable description of heavy-quarkonium evolution in the quark-gluon plasma at low temperatures compared to the leading-order truncation. For phenomenological applications, we numerically solve this equation using the quantum trajectories algorithm. By averaging over Monte Carlo-sampled quantum jumps, we obtain solutions without truncation in the angular momentum quantum number of the considered states. Our analysis highlights the importance of quantum jumps in the nonequilibrium evolution of bottomonium states within the quark-gluon plasma [2]. Additionally, we demonstrate that the quantum regeneration of singlet states from octet configurations is essential to explain experimental observations of bottomonium suppression. The heavy-quarkonium transport coefficients used in our study align with recent lattice QCD determinations.
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spellingShingle Bottomonium suppression in pNRQCD and open quantum system approach
Islam, Ajaharul
Brambilla, Nora
Escobedo, Miguel Ángel
Strickland, Michael
Vairo, Antonio
Griend, Peter Vander
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
By employing the potential non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (pNRQCD) effective field theory within an open quantum system framework, we derive a Lindblad equation governing the evolution of the heavy-quarkonium reduced density matrix, accurate to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the ratio of the state's binding energy to the medium's temperature [1]. The derived NLO Lindblad equation provides a more reliable description of heavy-quarkonium evolution in the quark-gluon plasma at low temperatures compared to the leading-order truncation. For phenomenological applications, we numerically solve this equation using the quantum trajectories algorithm. By averaging over Monte Carlo-sampled quantum jumps, we obtain solutions without truncation in the angular momentum quantum number of the considered states. Our analysis highlights the importance of quantum jumps in the nonequilibrium evolution of bottomonium states within the quark-gluon plasma [2]. Additionally, we demonstrate that the quantum regeneration of singlet states from octet configurations is essential to explain experimental observations of bottomonium suppression. The heavy-quarkonium transport coefficients used in our study align with recent lattice QCD determinations.
title Bottomonium suppression in pNRQCD and open quantum system approach
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22507