Bottomonia suppression in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma

Abstract

A brief review of recent studies on suppression of bottomonia in an anisotropic quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC is presented. A reasonable agreement between the model predictions for the inclusive $R_{\mathrm{AA}}$ suppression factor and the preliminary CMS experimental data is found. The values of the shear viscosity to the entropy density ratio extracted from the comparison with the data lie between one and two times the gauge/gravity duality lower bound. These values agree very well with the fluid dynamical fits to the light hadron correlation data and confirm that the quark-gluon plasma is a nearly-perfect fluid.

Comments: Talk presented by Radoslaw Ryblewski at XII International Conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum", 29 Aug. - 3 Sept. 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece; 8 pages, 3 figures