Thursday, October 4, 2012

1210.1064 (Y. Burnier et al.)

Massive vector current correlator in thermal QCD    [PDF]

Y. Burnier, M. Laine
We present an NLO analysis of the massive vector current correlator at temperatures above a few hundred MeV. The physics of this correlator originates from a transport peak, related to heavy quark diffusion, and from the quark-antiquark threshold, related to quarkonium physics. In the bottom case both can be studied with separate effective theories, but for charm these may not be accurate, so a study within the full theory is needed. Working in imaginary time, the NLO correlator can be computed in unresummed perturbation theory; comparing with lattice data, we find good agreement. Subsequently we inspect how non-perturbative modifications of the transport peak would affect the imaginary-time correlator. The massive NLO quark-number susceptibility is also contrasted with numerical measurement.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1064

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