8–14 Jan 2026
University of Granada, Carmen de la Victoria
Europe/Madrid timezone

Efficiently simulating quarkonium's evolution beyond the dipole approximation

9 Jan 2026, 11:00
30m
University of Granada, Carmen de la Victoria

University of Granada, Carmen de la Victoria

Speaker

Miguel Ángel Escobedo Espinosa (Universitat de Barcelona)

Description

The open quantum system framework allows one to compute quarkonium's evolution in a medium, keeping track of the needed quantum features. However, computing this evolution is a computationally demanding task. QTRAJ is an efficient code that allows one to simulate the behavior of quarkonium in a medium in the case in which the medium sees quarkonium as a small color dipole $rT\ll 1$. While this limit is accurate for $\Upsilon(1S)$, its applicability to other quarkonium states is unclear. In this talk, wwe present a generalization of this code that incorporates the regime where $rT \sim 1$ in the one-gluon exchange approximation. In its new version, QTRAJ implements new jump operators connecting different states, which are then expanded in plane waves, giving rise to a variation of the algorithm present in QTRAJ 1.0 where jumps with $\Delta \ell > 1$ are allowed. We will show a review of this approach comparing the $rT\ll 1$ and $rT\sim 1$ cases, and we present preliminary phenomenological results.

Author

Miguel Ángel Escobedo Espinosa (Universitat de Barcelona)

Co-authors

Prof. Andrea Beraudo (INFN) Mr Jorge Manuel Martínez Vera (Universitat de Barcelona and Università di Torino) Prof. Paolo Parotto (Università di Torino)

Presentation materials