Heavy Quark Interactions and Quarkonium Binding

Abstract

We consider heavy quark interactions in quenched and unquenched lattice QCD. In a region just above the deconfinement point, non-Abelian gluon polarization leads to a strong increase in the binding. Comparing quark-antiquark and quark-quark interaction, the dependence of the binding on the separation distance $r$ is found to be the same for the colorless singlet $Q\bar Q$ and the colored anti-triplet $QQ$ state. In a potential model description of in-medium $J/Ψ$ behavior, this enhancement of the binding leads to a survival up to temperatures of 1.5 $T_c$ or higher; it could also result in $J/Ψ$ flow.

8 pages, 8 Figures; invited talk at "Strangeness in Quark Matter 2008", Beijing/China, to appear in the Proceedings