Back reaction effects on the imaginary potential of quarkonia in heavy quark cloud

Abstract Applying the AdS/CFT correspondence, we investigate the effect of back reaction on the imaginary part of heavy quarkonia potential in strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) plasma. The back reaction considered here arises from the inclusion of static heavy quarks uniformly distributed over N = 4 SYM plasma. It is shown that the presence of back reaction reduces the absolute value of the imaginary potential thus decreasing the thermal width. Furthermore, the results imply that back reaction enhances the quarkonia dissociation.