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A study of charm quark dynamics in quark-gluon plasma with 3+1 D viscous hydrodynamics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-10-23 v1 Nuclear Experiment Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The drag and diffusion coefficients are studied within the framework of Fokker-Planck dynamics for the case of a charm quark propagating in an expanding quark-gluon plasma. The space-time evolution of the nuclear matter created in the relativistic heavy-ion collision is modelled using MUSIC, a 3+1 D relativistic viscous hydrodynamic approach. The effect of viscous corrections to the heavy quark transport coefficients is explored by considering scattering processes with thermal quarks and gluons in the medium. It is observed that the momentum diffusion of the heavy quarks is sensitive to the shear and bulk viscosity to entropy ratios. The collisional energy loss of the charm quark in the viscous quark-gluon plasma is analyzed.

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@article{arxiv.2007.07705,
  title  = {A study of charm quark dynamics in quark-gluon plasma with 3+1 D viscous hydrodynamics},
  author = {Manu Kurian and Mayank Singh and Vinod Chandra and Sangyong Jeon and Charles Gale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.07705},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages