This is a theoretical overview of quarkonium production in relativistic heavy ion collisions given for the Hard Probe 2024 conference at Nagasaki. The talk focuses on the application of the open quantum system framework and the formulation of the chromoelectric correlator that uniquely encodes properties of the quark-gluon plasma relevant for quarkonium dynamics and thus can be extracted from theory-experiment comparison.
This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, InQubator for Quantum Simulation (IQuS) (https://iqus.uw.edu) under Award Number DOE (NP) Award DE-SC0020970 via the program on Quantum Horizons: QIS Research and Innovation for Nuclear Science.
