Charm and Beauty in a Hot Environment

Abstract

We discuss the spectral analysis of quarkonium states in a hot medium of deconfined quarks and gluons, and we show that such an analysis provides a way to determine the thermal properties of the quark-gluon plasma.

Comments: 14 pages, 15 figures; presented at the meeting "A Sense of Beauty in Physics", honoring the 70th birthday of Adriano Di Giacomo; Pisa, Jan. 26 -27, 2006