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We calculate open heavy-flavor (HF) transport in relativistic heavy-ion collisions by applying a strong-coupling treatment in both macro- and microscopic dynamics (hydrodynamics and non-perturbative diffusion interactions). The hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-08-02 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

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

This paper presents a comparative analysis of three distinct methods used to calculate the collisional energy loss of heavy quarks in Quark-Gluon Plasma. The study focuses on the calculation of the nuclear suppression factor of charm quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-30 Marjan Rahimi Nezhad , Fatemeh Taghavi Shahri , Sharareh Mehrabi Pari , Kurosh Javidan

Application of Fokker-Planck equation to heavy quark transport in the evolving medium created in heavy ion collision is critically scrutinised. We realise that the approach introduces a moderate uncertainty in drag and diffusion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-29 Nirupam Dutta , Trambak Bhattacharyya

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

It is argued that heavy-quarks traversing a Quark Gluon Plasma, undergo a multi-stage modification process, similar to the case of light flavors. Such an approach is applied to heavy-quark energy loss, which includes a rare-scattering,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Shanshan Cao , Abhijit Majumder , Guang-You Qin , Chun Shen

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) using static heavy-quark (HQ) potentials from lattice-QCD calculations in a Brueckner many-body T-matrix approach to evaluate elastic heavy-quark-light-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-22 H. van Hees , M. Mannarelli , Vincenzo Greco , Ralf Rapp

Based on the holographic model, which incorporates the equation of state (EoS) and baryon number susceptibility for different flavors, we calculate the drag force, jet quenching parameter, and diffusion coefficient of the heavy quark at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Bing Chen , Xun Chen , Xiaohua Li , Zhou-Run Zhu , Kai Zhou

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 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

We discuss the propagation of heavy quarks (charm and bottom) through the QGP by means of a relativistic Boltzmann transport approach including both collisional and radiative energy loss mechanisms. In particular we investigate the impact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-05-24 G. Coci , F. Scardina , V. Greco

Heavy quark transport coefficients in a strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma can be evaluated using a gauge/string duality and lattice QCD. Via this duality, one can argue that for low momenta the drag coefficient for heavy quarks is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Oleg Andreev

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

The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport properties. In addition, the experimentally observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Min He , Hendrik van Hees , Ralf Rapp

The kinetic properties of relativistic quark-gluon and electron-photon plasmas are described in the weak coupling limit. The troublesome Rutherford divergence at small scattering angles is screened by Debye screening for the longitudinal or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Heiselberg

Heavy quark production provides a unique probe of the quark-gluon plasma transport properties in heavy ion collisions. Experimental observables like the nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm AA}$ and elliptic anisotropy $v_{2}$ of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-28 Shuang Li , Jinfeng Liao

The formation of a hot deconfined medium (Quark-Gluon Plasma) in high-energy nuclear collisions affects heavy-flavor observables. In the low/moderate-pT range transport calculations allow one to simulate the propagation of heavy quarks in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Andrea Beraudo

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

A bottom-up Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton holographic model is used to compute, for the first time, the behavior of several transport coefficients of the hot and baryon-rich strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma at the critical point and also…