Real-time QCD static potential at high temperature

We develop a procedure to analytically calculate higher-order contributions to the high-temperature real-time static potential in QCD. It is based on the introduction of a semihard external scale, which lies between the hard scale (the temperature) and the soft scale (the screening mass), and the me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Carrington, Margaret E., Manuel, Cristina, Soto, Joan
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2026
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/420161
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/420161
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Finite temperature field theory
Quark-gluon plasma
Relativistic heavy-ion collisions
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Sumario:We develop a procedure to analytically calculate higher-order contributions to the high-temperature real-time static potential in QCD. It is based on the introduction of a semihard external scale, which lies between the hard scale (the temperature) and the soft scale (the screening mass), and the method of integration by regions. We calculate the leading and next-to-leading corrections in the region where bound states transit from narrow resonances to wide ones. The calculation involves both loop diagrams calculated in the hard thermal loop (HTL) effective theory and power corrections to the HTL Lagrangian calculated in QCD. We also calculate the thermal corrections to the heavy quarkonium spectrum, and estimate the dissociation temperatures. We compare our results with recent lattice data and discuss their usefulness to guide lattice inputs in inverse problems.