A brief review of the theory of charmonium suppression in heavy ion collisions

Abstract

A brief overview of the theory of charmonium suppression in heavy ion collisions is presented. In particular I will concentrate on the effects caused by the hot, deconfined medium and on the effort to treat them using field-theoretical, QCD-based techniques, such as lattice QCD and Effective Field Theories.

Comments: 10 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of The 6th International Workshop on Charm Physics (CHARM 2013)