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We evaluate heavy-quark (HQ) transport properties in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) employing interaction potentials extracted from thermal lattice QCD. Within a Brueckner many-body scheme we calculate in-medium T-matrices for charm- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 H. van Hees , M. Mannarelli , V. Greco , R. Rapp

We employ the Boltzmann equation for describing hadron production from a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We propose resonance formation in quark-antiquark scattering as the dominant meson-production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Ravagli , R. Rapp

We develop a comprehensive model for heavy-quark evolution in a realistic QGP, from their production in the initial collision to hadronic freeze-out. Heavy-quark transport is described by a Langevin approach including medium-induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-13 Yu Fu , Tharun Krishna , Weiyao Ke , Steffen A. Bass , Ralf Rapp

Understanding the hadronization of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) remains a challenging problem in the study of strong-interaction matter as produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs). The large mass of heavy quarks renders…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-05 Min He , Ralf Rapp

The quark-gluon plasma, which is produced at an early stage of ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, is expected to be initially strongly populated with chromodynamic fields. We address the question how heavy quarks interact with such a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-18 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

We present results for the quenching, elliptic flow and azimuthal correlations of heavy flavour particles in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions obtained through the POWLANG transport setup, developed in the past to study the propagation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , M. Monteno , M. Nardi , F. Prino

We present a calculation of the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficients in a quark-gluon plasma under the presence of a strong external magnetic field, within the Lowest Landau Level (LLL) approximation. In particular, we apply the Hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Jinfeng Liao , Hongxi Xing

The relativistic diffusion process of heavy quarks is formulated on the basis of the relativistic Langevin equation in It\^{o} discretization scheme. The drag force inside the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is parametrized according to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-03 Yukinao Akamatsu , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tetsufumi Hirano

We construct a theoretical framework to describe the evolution of heavy flavors produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The in-medium energy loss of heavy quarks is described using our modified Langevin equation that incorporates…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-19 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Steffen A. Bass

The modifications of $D_s$-meson spectra in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are identified as a quantitative probe of key properties of the hot nuclear medium. This is enabled by the unique valence-quark content of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-03-27 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

A fluid-dynamic approach to the diffusion of heavy quarks in the quark--gluon plasma (QGP) is presented. Specifically, we analyze the Fokker-Planck equation for the momentum transport of heavy quarks from a fluid perspective and use a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 F. Capellino , A. Beraudo , A. Dubla , S. Floerchinger , S. Masciocchi , J. Pawlowski , I. Selyuzhenkov

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…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-23 Manu Kurian , Mayank Singh , Vinod Chandra , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Several transport models have been employed in recent years to analyze heavy-flavor meson spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-quark transport coefficients extracted from these models with their default parameters vary,…

We discuss heavy-quark dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma under a strong magnetic field induced by colliding nuclei. By the use of the diagrammatic resummation techniques for Hard Thermal Loop and the external magnetic field, we show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-03 Koichi Hattori , Kenji Fukushima , Ho-Ung Yee , Yi Yin

Quark Gluon Plasma transport coefficients for heavy quarks and quark-antiquark pairs are computed through an extension of the results obtained for a hot QED plasma by describing the heavy-quark propagation in the eikonal approximation and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-09 A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , W. M. Alberico , A. Molinari

We investigate the heavy flavor dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium created in p-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics model describing QGP medium, the dynamics of…

The diffusion coefficient of heavy quarks in the deconfined medium is examined in this research using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) trained with data from relativistic heavy ion collisions involving heavy flavor hadrons. The CNN…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-22 Rui Guo , Yonghui Li , Baoyi Chen

The heavy quark drag and momentum diffusion coefficients in the presence of both the collisional and radiative processes have been studied in a hot viscous QCD medium. The thermal medium effects are incorporated by employing the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Adiba Shaikh , Manu Kurian , Santosh K. Das , Vinod Chandra , Sadhana Dash , Basanta K. Nandi

The heavy charm and bottom quarks are unique probes of the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions. A key challenge in this context is to embed the interactions of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Tharun Krishna , Ralf Rapp , Yu Fu , Steffen A. Bass , Weiyao Ke

Data on high energy nuclear collisions collected at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider over the past decade have provided convincing evidence that hadronization is quite different in hot nuclear environments compared to p+p collisions. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-01 Rainer J. Fries