Thermal quarkonium mass shift from Euclidean correlators

Abstract

Brambilla, Escobedo, Soto, and Vairo have derived an effective description of quarkonium with two parameters; a momentum diffusion term and a real self-energy term. We point out that the real self-energy term can be expressed directly in terms of Euclidean electric-field correlators along a Polyakov line. This quantity can be directly studied on the lattice without the need for analytical continuation. We show that existing Minkowski-space calculations of this correlator correspond with the known NLO Euclidean value of the relevant electric-field two-point function.