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Temperature-dependent binding energies for bottomonium in a collision-produced quark-gluon plasma

Scarpitti, David Nicholas
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463409432

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2016, BS, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Physics.
I discuss the historical and physical significance of bottomonium suppression in heavy ion collision-produced quark-gluon plasma. I use a computational technique, the finite-difference time-domain method, to solve the Schrodinger equation for a complex valued potential and obtain collision temperature-dependence of bottomonium's binding energy. Along the way, I review fundamentals of quantum theory, I present a 1-dimensional algorithm for the finite-difference time-domain method, and I test outputs of that algorithm by comparing them with known analytic solutions of the Schrodinger equation for a simple potential.
Michael Strickland (Advisor)
55 p.
High Temperature Physics; Particle Physics; Physics
bottomonium; quark-gluon plasma; heavy-ion collision; finite-difference time-domain; binding energy; quarkonium; upsilon meson; quantum mechanics

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  • Scarpitti, D. N. (2016). Temperature-dependent binding energies for bottomonium in a collision-produced quark-gluon plasma [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463409432

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Scarpitti, David. Temperature-dependent binding energies for bottomonium in a collision-produced quark-gluon plasma. 2016. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463409432.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Scarpitti, David. "Temperature-dependent binding energies for bottomonium in a collision-produced quark-gluon plasma." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1463409432

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