Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: A first-principles investigation of heavy-light meson behaviour in hot QCD matter is essential for the interpretation of experimental results associated with open heavy flavour productions in relativistic heavy-ion collision experiments. Using anisotropic lattice ensembles from the FASTSUM collaboration with Nf=2+1 dynamical Wilson-clover fermions at non-zero temperatures, we study the B and B_s spectra at non-zero temperature. We use relativistic light quark propagators, while the b quark propagators are computed with a non-relativistic effective theory (NRQCD). We find that above T_c, thermal effects on the B meson states are more significant than those on the B_s states. Also, our results support the dissolution of the B-meson bound states above T_c.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: UK Research and Innovation, University of Leicester, National Research Foundation, National Research Foundation of Korea, Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea, Irish Centre for High-End Computing, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion
OpenAlex ID: W7213330924