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Heavy quark dynamics in a hot magnetized QCD medium

Nuclear Theory 2019-10-09 v1

Abstract

The heavy quark drag and momentum diffusion have been investigated in a hot magnetized quark-gluon plasma, along the directions parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. The analysis is done within the framework of Fokker-Planck dynamics by considering the heavy quark scattering with thermal quarks and gluons at the leading order in the coupling constant. An extended quasiparticle model is adopted to encode the thermal QCD medium interactions in the presence of a magnetic field. Further, the higher Landau level effects on the temperature behaviour of the parallel and perpendicular components of the drag force and diffusion coefficients have studied. It has been observed that both the equation of state and the magnetic field play key roles in the temperature dependence of the heavy quark dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.1907.09556,
  title  = {Heavy quark dynamics in a hot magnetized QCD medium},
  author = {Manu Kurian and Santosh K. Das and Vinod Chandra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.09556},
  year   = {2019}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures

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