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The drag and diffusion coefficients of charm and bottom quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma have been evaluated for conditions relevant to nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Both the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Santosh K Das , Jan-e Alam

The drag and diffusion coefficients of charm and bottom quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma (QGP) have been evaluated for conditions relevant to nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The dead cone and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Santosh K Das , Jan-e Alam , Payal Mohanty

The Fokker Planck (FP) equation has been solved to study the interaction of non-equilibrated heavy quarks with the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) expected to be formed in heavy ion collisions at RHIC energies. The solutions of the FP equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-14 Santosh K Das , Jan-e Alam , Payal Mohanty

The momentum dependence of the drag coefficient of heavy quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma (QGP) has been evaluated. The results have been used to estimate the nuclear suppression factor of charm and bottom quarks in QGP. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-10-10 Surasree Mazumder , Trambak Bhattacharyya , Jan-e Alam , Santosh K Das

We focus on evaluating transport coefficients like drag and diffusion of heavy quarks (HQ) passing through Quark Gluon Plasma using perturbative QCD (pQCD). Experimental observable like nuclear suppression factor (RAA) of HQ is evaluated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-07-25 Surasree Mazumder , Trambak Bhattacharyya , Santosh K. Das

This paper investigates the influence of heavy-quark momentum on their interaction rate and the resulting drag coefficient in a quark-gluon plasma. To go beyond simplified treatments, we introduce a phenomenological extension of the drag…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-30 Marjan Rahimi Nezhad , Fatemeh Taghavi-Shahri , Kurosh Javidan

Heavy flavor particles provide important probes of the microscopic structure and thermodynamic properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. We study the energy loss and flow of charm and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-13 Shu-Qing Li , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin

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

The radiative energy loss of fast partons traveling through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is commonly studied within perturbative QCD (pQCD). Nonperturbative (NP) effects, which are expected to become important near the critical temperature,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-30 Shuai Y. F. Liu , 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

Heavy Quarks (HQs) serve as excellent probes to understand various characteristics of deconfined hot QCD medium, comprising light quarks and gluons, created in the Heavy Ion Collisions (HICs). Strong magnetic fields in non-central HICs may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-18 Surasree Mazumder , Vinod Chandra , Santosh K Das

We revisit the question of the measured, unexpectedly large, heavy flavor suppression, $R_{AA}(p_T) \ll 1$, in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and compare two new theoretical approaches to the $D$- and $B$-meson quenching. In the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ivan Vitev , Azfar Adil , Hendrik van Hees

Heavy-flavor particles are believed to provide valuable probes of the medium produced in ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy nuclei. In this article we review recent progress in our understanding of the interactions of charm and bottom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Ralf Rapp , Hendrik van Hees

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

The propagation of charm and bottom quarks through an ellipsoidal domain of quark gluon plasma has been studied within the ambit of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics. Energy dissipation of heavy quarks by both radiative and collisional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-11-23 Santosh K Das , Jan-e Alam

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

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 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

We assess transport properties of heavy quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) that show a strong non-perturbative behavior. A T-matrix approach based on a potential taken from lattice QCD hints at the presence of heavy-quark (HQ) resonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Greco , H. van Hees , R. Rapp

Charm- and bottom-quark rescattering in a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) is investigated with the objective of assessing the approach towards thermalization. Employing a Fokker-Planck equation to approximate the collision integral of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 H. van Hees , R. Rapp
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