D. Bala

Lattice study of spin interactions between heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma

We calculate the spin-dependent potential, which is the $\mathcal{O}(1/M^2)$ correction term to the thermal potential between a static quark-antiquark pair within non-relativistic QCD. At leading order in hard thermal loop perturbation theory, we show that this spin-dependent potential has an imaginary part which is di...