Medium-induced quarkonium dissociation at finite chemical potential and in a weak magnetic field

We investigate the in-medium modification and dissociation of heavy quarkonium in a hot QCD medium at finite quark chemical potential and in the weak magnetic-field regime. Starting from the one-loop resummed gluon propagator in the imaginary-time formalism, and incorporating nonperturbative effects through a phenomenological correction to the hard thermal loop description, we compute the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric permittivity. This, in turn, leads to a complex heavy-quark potential: The real part is used to determine binding energies by solving the nonrelativistic Schrödinger equation, while the imaginary part generates thermal decay widths dominated by Landau damping. Within the explored parameter range, the temperature has the greatest control over Debye screening, potential modification, and quarkonium stability, whereas finite density and weak magnetic fields introduce comparatively smaller quantitative changes. As the temperature increases, binding energies decrease and thermal widths grow, giving rise to the expected hierarchy between ground and excited states and a sequential suppression pattern in the dissociation temperatures. Overall, our results indicate that while finite chemical potential and weak magnetic fields can shift quarkonium properties in a measurable way, thermal effects remain the primary driver of dissociation, with direct relevance for heavy-ion collision phenomenology.

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Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
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2026-04-10
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https://doi.org/10.1103/zrfm-z9gc
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Rare-earth and actinide compounds
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Medium-induced quarkonium dissociation at finite chemical potential and in a weak magnetic field

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Medium-induced quarkonium dissociation at finite chemical potential and in a weak magnetic field

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Abstract

We investigate the in-medium modification and dissociation of heavy quarkonium in a hot QCD medium at finite quark chemical potential and in the weak magnetic-field regime. Starting from the one-loop resummed gluon propagator in the imaginary-time formalism, and incorporating nonperturbative effects through a phenomenological correction to the hard thermal loop description, we compute the real and imaginary parts of the dielectric permittivity. This, in turn, leads to a complex heavy-quark potential: The real part is used to determine binding energies by solving the nonrelativistic Schrödinger equation, while the imaginary part generates thermal decay widths dominated by Landau damping. Within the explored parameter range, the temperature has the greatest control over Debye screening, potential modification, and quarkonium stability, whereas finite density and weak magnetic fields introduce comparatively smaller quantitative changes. As the temperature increases, binding energies decrease and thermal widths grow, giving rise to the expected hierarchy between ground and excited states and a sequential suppression pattern in the dissociation temperatures. Overall, our results indicate that while finite chemical potential and weak magnetic fields can shift quarkonium properties in a measurable way, thermal effects remain the primary driver of dissociation, with direct relevance for heavy-ion collision phenomenology.

Physical review. D/Physical review. D.Vol. 113(7)
Integral University (IN), Indian Institute of Information Technology Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur (IN), Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram (IN), Central China Normal University (CN), Institute of Engineering (NP), Banaras Hindu University (IN)
Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, India
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Rare-earth and actinide compounds
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