Eective potentials for heavy quarks above deconnement
Using methods previously developed by Kelbg and others for creating eective potentials for electron-ion plasmas, we investigate quarkonium potentials above deconnement. Using results for the internal energy of a static quark-antiquark (Q Q) pair, a set of eective potentials are constructed that take into account quantum eects and symmetry conditions. Bound state eects are explicitly included in order to account for the strongly coupled nature of the plasma. It is hoped that these eective potentials will be useful in simulations of heavy quarks or plasma quasiparticles when the dynamics is treated classically.