T-matrix Analysis of Static Wilson Line Correlators from Lattice QCD at Finite Temperature

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Abstract

We utilize a previously constructed thermodynamic T-matrix approach to the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to calculate Wilson line correlators (WLCs) of a static quark antiquark pair and apply them to the results from realistic 2+1-flavor lattice-QCD (lQCD) computations. The pertinent T-matrix results can describe the lQCD data for WLCs fairly well, but refinements of the input parameters are necessary to improve the agreement, providing new insights. This renders the T-matrix a more accurate and reliable tool to make predictions for the spectral and transport properties of the QGP, i.e., the charm-quark spatial diffusion coefficients turn out to be in agreement with lQCD results.

*This work has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grant nos. PHY-1913286 and PHY-2209335, and by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics through the Topical Collaboration in Nuclear Theory on Heavy-Flavor Theory (HEFTY) for QCD Matter under award no.~DE-SC0023547.

Publication: T-matrix Analysis of Static Wilson Line Correlators from Lattice QCD at Finite Temperature

Presenters

  • Zhanduo Tang

    • Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University

Authors

  • Zhanduo Tang

    • Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University
  • Swagato Mukherjee

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Peter Petreczky

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory
  • Ralf F Rapp

    • Texas A&M University