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The gluon radiation induced by multiple scattering of a hard parton in expanding quark-gluon plasma is investigated. The radiative energy loss of hard parton jet is shown to decrease considerably when angular size of extracted jet goes up,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 I. P. Lokhtin , A. M. Snigirev

The computation of radiative energy loss in a dynamically screened QCD medium is a key ingredient for obtaining reliable predictions for jet quenching in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We calculate, to first order in the opacity,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Magdalena Djordjevic , Ulrich Heinz

We compute the leading-order collisional energy loss of a heavy quark propagating through a quark-gluon plasma in which the quark and gluon distributions are anisotropic in momentum space. Following the calculation outlined for QED in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Paul Romatschke , Michael Strickland

We extend our previous work on the energy loss of a heavy fermion in a QED plasma to the Quark-Gluon plasma, using the same Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook collisional kernel. The calculation is carried out with a theoretical method where the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-12 Mingda Cai , Yun Guo

We calculate the probability distribution $P({\bf k})$ for a heavy quark with velocity $v$ propagating through strongly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM plasma in the 't Hooft limit at a temperature $T$ to acquire a momentum ${\bf k}$ due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-01 Krishna Rajagopal , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Urs Achim Wiedemann

We extend our recently advanced model on collisional energy loss of heavy quarks in a quark gluon plasma (QGP) by including radiative energy loss. We discuss the approach and present first preliminary results. We show that present data on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-22 P. B. Gossiaux , J. Aichelin , T. Gousset , V. Guiho

The radiative energy loss of a quark jet traversing a finite size QCD medium with dynamical constituents is calculated to first order in opacity. Although finite size corrections reduce the energy loss relative to an infinite dynamical QCD…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Magdalena Djordjevic , Ulrich W. Heinz

The energy loss per unit path length of a highly energetic parton scattering elastically in a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma is studied as an initial value problem. The approach is designed to study unstable plasmas but in the case of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-15 Margaret E. Carrington , Katarzyna Deja , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

The suppression of high $p_{T}$ hadron production in heavy ion collisions is thought to be due to energy loss by gluon radiation off hard partons in a QCD medium. Existing models of QCD radiative energy loss in a color-charged medium give…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Marta Verweij

We recently showed that a heavy quark moving sufficiently fast through a quark-gluon plasma may lose energy by Cherenkov-radiating mesons [1]. Here we review our previous holographic calculation of the energy loss in N=4 Super Yang-Mills…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-14 Jorge Casalderrey-Solana , Daniel Fernandez , David Mateos

We study the medium-induced energy loss $-\Delta E_0(L_p)$ suffered by a heavy quark produced at initial time in a quark-gluon plasma, and escaping the plasma after travelling the distance $L_p$. The heavy quark is treated classically, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 P. -B. Gossiaux , S. Peigne , C. Brandt , J. Aichelin

The N=4 super Yang-Mills plasma is studied in the regime of weak coupling. Collective excitations and collisional processes are discussed. Since the Keldysh-Schwinger approach is used, the collective excitations in both equilibrium and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-20 Alina Czajka , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

Heavy quarks serve as crucial probes for exploring the properties of the hot and dense medium formed in heavy-ion collision experiments. Understanding the modification of their energy as they traverse the medium is a focal point of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-04 Jai Prakash , Mohammad Yousuf Jamal

We holographically study the effect of back reaction on the hydrodynamical properties of $\mathcal{N} = 4$ strongly coupled super Yang-Mills (SYM) thermal plasma. The back reaction we consider arises from the presence of static heavy quarks…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-16 Shankhadeep Chakrabortty , Tanay K. Dey

We calculate the collisional energy loss and momentum diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks traversing a hot and dense QCD medium at finite quark chemical potential, $\mu\neq0$. The analysis is performed within an extended soft-hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Jiale Lou , Wu Wang , Jiazhen Peng , Fei Sun , Kejun Wu , Wei Xie , Zuman Zhang , Shuang Li , Sa Wang

We compute the energy loss of heavy quarkonia in high temperature QCD plasmas and investigate the energy loss effects on quarkonium suppression. Based on the effective vertex derived from the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude for quarkonium, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Juhee Hong , Su Houng Lee

We study the heavy quark energy loss in the presence of a background magnetic field. The analysis considers the high magnetic field generated by spectators from initial hard collisions that were incorporated using the medium-modified Debye…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-11 Mohammad Yousuf Jamal , Jai Prakash , Indrani Nilima , Aritra Bandyopadhyay

We compute and study the drag force acting on a heavy quark propagating through the matter produced in the collision of two sheets of energy in a strongly coupled gauge theory that can be analyzed holographically. Although this matter is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Paul M. Chesler , Mindaugas Lekaveckas , Krishna Rajagopal

In this proceedings, we review our recent work on the heavy quark radiative energy loss in nuclei due to multiple parton scattering within the recently improved high-twist approach, where gauge invariance can be ensured by a delicate setup…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-21 Yi-Lun Du

The recent experimental results on the flow of $J/\psi$ at LHC show that ample amount of charm quarks is present in the quark gluon plasma and probably they are thermalized. In the current study we investigate the effect of thermalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-12 Souvik Priyam Adhya , Mahatsab Mandal , Sreemoyee Sarkar , Pradip K. Roy , Sukalyan Chattopadhyay