Small Quarkonium states in an anisotropic QCD plasma

Abstract

We determine the hard-loop resummed propagator in an anisotropic QCD plasma in general covariant gauges and define a potential between heavy quarks from the Fourier transform of its static limit. We find that the potential exhibits angular dependence and that binding of very small quarkonium states is stronger than in an isotropic plasma.

Comments: 4 pages, Contribution to Quark Matter 2008 (Jaipur, India)