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Transport coefficients of heavy mesons in a thermal medium

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-12-02 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

We have investigated the many-body equations of DD and Bˉ\bar{B} mesons in a thermal medium by applying an effective field theory based on chiral and heavy-quark symmetries. Exploiting these symmetries within kinetic theory, we have derived an off-shell Fokker-Planck equation which incorporates information of the full spectral functions of these states. In this contribution we present our latest results on heavy-flavor transport coefficients below the chiral restoration temperature, in both charm and bottom sectors. The calculation incorporating temperature-dependent spectral functions and interactions, together with off-shell effects, allows for an improved matching to the state-of-the-art calculations above the chiral transition temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2212.00493,
  title  = {Transport coefficients of heavy mesons in a thermal medium},
  author = {Juan M. Torres-Rincon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.00493},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of ICHEP 2022 conference, see https://www.ichep2022.it/