The real-time QCD static potential at high temperature

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Main Authors: Carrington, Margaret E., Manuel, Cristina, Soto, Joan
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author Carrington, Margaret E.
Manuel, Cristina
Soto, Joan
author_facet Carrington, Margaret E.
Manuel, Cristina
Soto, Joan
contents We develop a procedure to analytically calculate higher-order contributions to the high-temperature real-time static potential in QCD. It is based on the introduction of a semi-hard external scale, which lies between the hard scale (the temperature) and the soft scale (the screening mass), and the method of integration by regions. We calculate the leading and next-to-leading corrections in the region where bound states transit from narrow resonances to wide ones. The calculation involves both loop diagrams calculated in the Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) effective theory and power corrections to the HTL Lagrangian calculated in QCD. We also calculate the thermal corrections to the heavy quarkonium spectrum, and estimate the dissociation temperatures. We compare our results with recent lattice data and discuss their usefulness to guide lattice inputs in inverse problems.
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spellingShingle The real-time QCD static potential at high temperature
Carrington, Margaret E.
Manuel, Cristina
Soto, Joan
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We develop a procedure to analytically calculate higher-order contributions to the high-temperature real-time static potential in QCD. It is based on the introduction of a semi-hard external scale, which lies between the hard scale (the temperature) and the soft scale (the screening mass), and the method of integration by regions. We calculate the leading and next-to-leading corrections in the region where bound states transit from narrow resonances to wide ones. The calculation involves both loop diagrams calculated in the Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) effective theory and power corrections to the HTL Lagrangian calculated in QCD. We also calculate the thermal corrections to the heavy quarkonium spectrum, and estimate the dissociation temperatures. We compare our results with recent lattice data and discuss their usefulness to guide lattice inputs in inverse problems.
title The real-time QCD static potential at high temperature
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24746