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We study bottomonium spectral functions in the quark-gluon plasma in the \(\Upsilon \) and η b channels, using lattice QCD simulations with two flavours of light quark on highly anisotropic lattices. The bottom quark is treated with nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD). In the temperature range we consider, \(0.{42} \leqslant T/{T_c} \leqslant {2}.0{9} \), we find that the ground states survive, whereas the excited states are suppressed as the temperature is increased. The position and width of the ground states are compared to analytical effective field theory (EFT) predictions. Systematic uncertainties of the maximum entropy method (MEM), used to construct the spectral functions, are discussed in some detail.
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Aarts, G., Allton, C., Kim, S. et al. What happens to the \( \Upsilon \) and η b in the quark-gluon plasma? Bottomonium spectral functions from lattice QCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 103 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2011)103
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