Theory of Heavy Flavor in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

Abstract

Heavy-quark interactions in the Quark-Gluon Plasma are analyzed in terms of a selfconsistent Brueckner scheme using a thermodynamic $T$-matrix based on a potential model. The interrelations between quarkonium correlators, spectral functions and zero-modes, and open heavy-flavor transport and susceptibilities are elaborated. Independent constraints from thermal lattice QCD can be used to improve predictions for heavy-quark phenomenology in heavy-ion collisions.

Comments: 8 pages, 10 figures, proceedings of 6th Int. Conf. on Physics and Astrophysics of Quark-Gluon Plasma, Goa (India), Dec. 06-10, 2010