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The general intuition that heavier partons suffer weaker energy loss inside a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium is critically re-examined. Within a linear Boltzmann transport model that includes both Yukawa and string types of interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Yichao Dang , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

Charm quarks serve as a sensitive probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), providing direct insights into its formation, evolution, and properties. In this proceeding, we present new high-precision measurements from the CMS experiment in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-29 Nihar Ranjan Saha

Thermal and interfacial properties of a QGP droplet in a hadronic medium are computed using a statistical model of the system. The results indicate a weakly first order transition at a transition temperature \sim (160 \pm 5) MeV. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Ramanathan , Agam K. Jha , S. S. Singh , K. K. Gupta

The growing consensus that a strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) has been observed at the SPS and RHIC experiments suggests a different framework for examining heavy quark dynamics. We present both semi-analytical treatment of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-04-28 Clint Young , Edward Shuryak

Open heavy flavor and quarkonia have long been identified as ideal probes for understanding the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Heavy quarks are produced in the early stage of the heavy-ion collisions. Therefore they experience the evolution of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-25 Victor Valencia Torres

Heavy quarks and quarkonia are versatile probes of the transport properties of the hot QCD medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs). A robust description of heavy-flavor transport coefficients requires a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Biaogang Wu , Zhanduo Tang , Ralf Rapp

Heavy quarks created in heavy-ion collisions serve as an excellent probe of the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The radiation pattern of jets formed from heavy quarks as they traverse the QGP exhibits a particularly interesting structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Carlota Andres , Fabio Dominguez , Jack Holguin , Cyrille Marquet , Ian Moult

Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculation predicts that a colour-deconfined QCD matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is formed at high temperature and energy density reached in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Heavy quarks…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 Daichi Kawana

Thermalization and collective flow of charm (c) and bottom (b) quarks in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are evaluated based on elastic parton rescattering in an expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We show that resonant interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hendrik van Hees , Vincenzo Greco , Ralf Rapp

This dissertation presents a theoretical study of soft hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We explore the principles governing the hadronization of the expanding QGP fireball, and to understand its properties. Much of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-26 Michal Petran

We extract the speed of sound ($c_s$) in the quark-gluon plasma from ATLAS data on the probability distribution of the transverse momentum per particle, $[p_T]$, in ultra-central Pb+Pb collisions. With an ideal detector, $c_s$ can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-11 Mubarak Alqahtani , Tribhuban Parida , Jean-Yves Ollitrault

Heavy-flavour quarks are important to probe Quark-Gluon Plasma(QGP) properties. Cold Nuclear Matter(CNM) effects can be accessed by $p$Pb collisions. LHCb is a heavy-flavour precision experiment and has collected large collision data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-30 Jiajia Qin

Employing nonperturbative transport coefficients for heavy-flavor (HF) diffusion through quark-gluon plasma (QGP), hadronization and hadronic matter, we compute $D$- and $B$-meson observables in Pb+Pb ($\sqrt{s}$=2.76\,TeV) collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

The study of angular correlations of heavy-flavor particles in hadronic collisions can provide crucial insight into the heavy quark production, showering, and hadronization processes. The comparison with model predictions allows us to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-05 Deepa Thomas , Fabio Colamaria

Understanding the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) offers insights into the strong interaction and the conditions of the early universe.Since the QGP cannot be observed directly, its properties must be inferred from the particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-20 Somadutta Bhatta

We report on recent research on the properties of elementary particle matter governed by the strong force at high temperatures, where QCD predicts hadrons to dissolve into the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). After a short introduction to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-04 R. Rapp , H. van Hees

We investigate the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of heavy quark transport in a thermal QCD medium. Based on the Soft-Hard Factorized Model (SHFM), we extend the original perturbative framework to the near-critical temperature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-14 Jiazhen Peng , Jiale Lou , Fei Sun , Kejun Wu , Wei Xie , Zuman Zhang , Shuang Li , Sa Wang

The determination of the color force in a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a key objective in the investigation of strong-interaction matter. Open and hidden heavy-flavor observables in heavy-ion collisions (HICs) are believed to provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-15 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Min He , Ralf Rapp

We review the problem of heavy-quark diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma and its ramifications for heavy-quark spectra in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. In particular, we attempt to reconcile underlying mechanisms of several seemingly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Ralf Rapp

We discuss recent developments in assessing heavy-quark interaction in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). While induced gluon radiation is expected to be the main energy-loss mechanism for fast-moving quarks, we focus on elastic scattering which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Rapp , H. van Hees