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In this work, we investigate the momentum-dependent drag and diffusion coefficient of heavy quarks (HQs) moving in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) background. The leading order scattering amplitudes required for this purpose have been obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-05 Sumit , Arghya Mukherjee , Najmul Haque , Binoy Krishna Patra

Heavy quarks offer an invaluable hard probe of the droplets of quark gluon plasma (QGP) formed in heavy ion collisions at the LHC and RHIC. Given their large mass, they are predominantly produced in hard scattering processes at the earliest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-15 Andrea Beraudo , Jean F. Du Plessis , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

Using a holographic QCD model augmented by Bayesian inference, we calculate key transport coefficients of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP)$\text{-}$including the drag force, jet quenching parameter, heavy quark diffusion coefficient, and shear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Bing Chen , Liqiang Zhu , Xun Chen , Defu Hou , Xurong Chen

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

The goal of the ultra-relativistic heavy ion program is to study Quantum Chromodynamics under finite temperature and density conditions. After a couple of decades of experiment, the focus at the top RHIC and the LHC energy has evolved to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-03 Xin Dong

We extend our investigation of heavy quark transport coefficients in the effective dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) -- which reproduces nonperturbative QCD phenomena in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) according to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Ilia Grishmanovskii , Taesoo Song , Carsten Greiner , Elena Bratkovskaya

The drag and diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma (QGP) have been evaluated using Hard Thermal Loop (HTL) approximations. The HTL corrections to the relevant propagators and vertices have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-10 Surasree Mazumder , Trambak Bhattacharyya , Jan-e Alam

The quark gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most interesting forms of matter providing us with insight on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the early universe. It is believed that the heavy-ion collision experiments at the Relativistic Heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Wenkai Fan

Heavy-quark observables in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions, like the nuclear modification factor and the elliptic flow, give insight into the mechanisms of high-momentum suppression and low-momentum thermalization of heavy quarks.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-27 Marlene Nahrgang , Jörg Aichelin , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

We attempt a unified treatment of heavy quarkonia and heavy-quark diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Our approach is based on finite-temperature T-matrices with interaction potentials estimated from the heavy-quark internal energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-23 R. Rapp , D. Cabrera , V. Greco , M. Mannarelli , H. van Hees

The aim of this thesis is twofold: a) A comprehensive study of the thermoelectric response in QGP in the absence and presence of a background magnetic field, b) Exploring the dynamics of heavy quarks traversing in QGP in the presence of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-25 Debarshi Dey

In presence of the non-ideal plasma effects, Heavy Quarks (HQs) carry out non linear random walk inside Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) and in the small momentum transfer limit, the evolution of the HQ distribution is dictated by the Non Linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-27 Trambak Bhattacharyya , Jean Cleymans

We study the propagation of heavy quarks (HQs) in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of a relativistic Boltzmann transport (RBT) approach. The non-perturbative interaction between heavy quarks and light quarks is described by means of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Plumari , G. Coci , S. K. Das , V. Minissale , V. Greco

We review the experimental and theoretical status of open heavy-flavor (HF) production in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. We first overview the theoretical concepts and pertinent calculations of HF transport in QCD matter,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-08-24 Francesco Prino , Ralf Rapp

We study the heavy quark scattering on partons of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) being especially interested in the collisional (elastic) scattering processes of heavy quarks on quarks and gluons. We calculate the different cross sections for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-02 H. Berrehrah , E. Bratkovskaya , W. Cassing , P. B. Gossiaux , J. Aichelin , M. Bleicher

Heavy quark (HQ) momentum ($\kappa$) and spatial diffusion ($D_s$) coefficients are computed in a non-perturbative thermal QCD medium in the presence of a background magnetic field of arbitrary strength. Both perturbative and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 Debarshi Dey , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Yifeng Sun , Santosh K. Das

Based on a thermodynamic $T$-matrix approach we extract the potential $V$ between two static charges in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) from fits to the pertinent lattice-QCD free energy. With suitable relativistic corrections we utilize this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Ralf Rapp

A thermodynamic quantum many-body $T$-matrix approach is employed to study the spectral and transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma at moderate temperatures where nonperturbative effects are essential. For the partonic two-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Ralf Rapp

High-energy heavy-ion collisions provide a unique opportunity to study the properties of the hot and dense strongly-interacting system composed of deconfined quarks and gluons -- the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) -- in laboratory conditions. The…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-08-07 Mateusz Ploskon

We calculate the heavy quark evolution in heavy ion collisions and show results for the elliptic flow $v_2$ as well as the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ at RHIC and LHC energies. For the calculation we implement a Langevin approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Yu-Peng Yan , Marcus Bleicher