Quarkonia in anisotropic hot QCD medium in a quasi-particle model

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The fate of heavy quarkonia states has been investigated in QCD at high temperature when the plasma has a small momentum space anisotropy within a quasi-particle model.

• A real time static potential has been obtained from a Hard thermal loop expression for the gluon self-energy, by employing the quasi-parton equilibrium distribution functions extracted from hot QCD equations of state of $O(g^5)$ and $O(g^6\ln(1/g))$.
• Employing the potential, quarkonia melting has been studied.
• It is found that the equations of state and the momentum anisotropy cause significant modifications in the screening properties of the plasma.