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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

The bottom quark transport coefficients, i.e., drag and diffusion coefficients, have been studied for the collisional and soft gluon radiative processes within the viscous QCD medium. The thermal medium effects are incorporated using the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-07 Adiba Shaikh , Sadhana Dash , Basanta K. Nandi

We have investigated the charge-dependent anisotropic flow in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, using relativistic resistive magneto-hydrodynamics (RRMHD). We consider the optical Glauber model as an initial model of the quark-gluon plasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-03-29 Kouki Nakamura , Takahiro Miyoshi , Chiho Nonaka , Hiroyuki R. Takahashi

The present article is the followup of {\color{blue} Eur.\ Phys.\ J.\ C {\bf 79}, 761 (2019)}, where we have studied the energy-loss of the heavy quarks traversing through the isotropic collisional hot QCD medium. Since, the exploration of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-24 M. Yousuf Jamal , Bedangadas Mohanty

The change in the energy of the moving heavy (charm and bottom) quarks due to field fluctuations present in the hot QCD medium has been studied. A finite quark chemical potential has been considered while modeling the hot QCD medium…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-13 Mohammad Yousuf Jamal , Bedangadas Mohanty

The propagation of heavy quarks (HQs) in a medium was quite often modeled by the Fokker-Plank (FP) equation. Since the transport coefficients, related to drag and diffusion processes are the main ingredients in the FP equation, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-06 P. K. Srivastava , Binoy Krishna Patra

In this work we investigate how event-by-event hydrodynamics fluctuations affect the nuclear suppression factor and elliptic flow of heavy flavor mesons and non-photonic electrons. We use a 2D+1 Lagrangian ideal hydrodynamic code on an…

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 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

To date, holographic calculations in strongly coupled plasma have provided separate descriptions for the rates of energy loss either for ultrarelativistic massless quarks and gluons or for infinitely massive quarks, with the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-05 Jean F. Du Plessis , Daniel Pablos , Krishna Rajagopal

We discuss how heavy quark dynamics is affected by the critical fluctuations near the QCD critical point at finite temperature and density. We find that the heavy quark momentum diffusion constant scales as $\kappa\propto\xi^{z-3-\eta}$. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-06 Yukinao Akamatsu , Masayuki Asakawa

We study the dynamics of energy loss and flow of heavy quarks produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions within the framework of a Langevin equation coupled to a (2+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamic model that simulates the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-10-17 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Steffen A. Bass

This work reports on investigations of the effects on the evolution of viscous hydrodynamics and on the flow coefficients of thermal dileptons, originating from a temperature-dependent specific shear viscosity $\eta/s (T)$ at temperatures…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-18 Gojko Vujanovic , Gabriel S. Denicol , Matthew Luzum , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

This review explores the current understanding of collective excitations and the dynamics of heavy quark propagation in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) formed in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We focus on three core aspects: the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-10-29 Mohammad Yousuf Jamal , Bedangadas Mohanty

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

The fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter is a key characteristic of the medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We extend the framework of the relativistic hydrodynamic model to incorporate non-thermal momentum distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Akihiko Monnai

Multiple scattering, modified fragmentation functions and radiative energy loss of a heavy quark propagating in a nuclear medium are investigated in perturbative QCD. Because of the quark mass dependence of the gluon formation time, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang

Flow measurements are reviewed with particular emphasis on the hydrodynamic character of elliptic flow at RHIC. Hydrodynamic scaling compatible with the production of highly thermalized matter having a high degree of collective interactions…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 Roy A. Lacey

Heavy quark jet quenching in nuclear collisions at LHC is predicted and compared using the classical gravity AdS/CFT correspondence and Standard Model perturbative QCD. The momentum independence and inverse quark mass dependence of the drag…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-05-04 W. A. Horowitz , M. Gyulassy

The colliding heavy ions create extremely strong magnetic and electric fields that significantly affect the evolution of the produced quark-gluon plasma (QGP). The knowledge of these fields is essential for establishing the role of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 U. Gürsoy , D. E. Kharzeev , E. Marcus , K. Rajagopal , C. Shen