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We perform the first simultaneous Bayesian inference of the temperature-dependent heavy-quark spatial diffusion coefficient $2\pi T\mathcal{D}_s$ and the scaled jet transport coefficient $\hat{q}/T^3$ in the quark-gluon plasma, utilizing…

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We have implemented a Langevin approach for the transport of heavy quarks in the UrQMD hybrid model. The UrQMD hybrid approach provides a realistic description of the background medium for the evolution of relativistic heavy ion collisions.…

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By utilizing a soft-hard factorized model, which combines a thermal perturbative description of soft scatterings and a perturbative QCD-based calculation for hard collisions, we study the energy and temperature dependence of the heavy quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-24 Shuang Li , Fei Sun , Wei Xie , Wei Xiong

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

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…

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Employing nonperturbative transport coefficients for heavy-flavor (HF) diffusion through quark-gluon plasma (QGP), hadronization and hadronic matter, we compute $D$- and $B$-meson observables in Pb+Pb ($\sqrt{s}$=2.76\,TeV) collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

We present a lattice determination of the heavy-quark diffusion coefficient in (2+1)-flavor QCD with almost physical quark masses. The momentum and spatial diffusion coefficients are extracted for a wide temperature range, from $T=163$ MeV…

A central goal in the study of heavy-flavour production is to determine the interaction strength between Heavy Quarks (HQs) and the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), quantified by the spatial diffusion coefficient $D_s(T)$. Recent lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-05 Maria Lucia Sambataro , Vincenzo Minissale , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

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

A snapshot of the results for heavy-flavour observables in heavy-ion (AA) collisions at RHIC and LHC obtained with our transport calculations is displayed. The initial charm and beauty production is simulated through pQCD tools…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , M. Monteno , F. Prino , W. M. Alberico , A. Molinari , M. Nardi

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the production of heavy quarks at large transverse momenta is strongly suppressed compared to proton-proton collisions. In addition an unexpectedly large azimuthal anisotropy was observed for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen A. Bass

Among quantities playing a central role in the theoretical interpretation of heavy ion collision experiments at RHIC and LHC are so-called transport coefficients. Out of those heavy quark diffusion coefficients play an important role e.g.…

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The transport properties of quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions are quantified by an improved global Bayesian analysis using the CERN Large Hadron Collider Pb--Pb data at $\sqrt{s_{\textbf{NN}}}=2.76\;$ and…

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The propagation of the heavy quarks produced in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC is studied within the framework of Langevin dynamics in the background of an expanding deconfined medium described by ideal and viscous…

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We present the first calculations of the heavy flavor diffusion coefficient using lattice QCD with light dynamical quarks. For temperatures $195\,\mathrm{MeV}<T<352\,\mathrm{MeV}$, the heavy quark spatial diffusion coefficient is found to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-07-13 Luis Altenkort , Olaf Kaczmarek , Rasmus Larsen , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Hai-Tao Shu , Simon Stendebach

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

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

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

We report progress towards computing the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient from the correlator of two chromo-electric fields attached to a Polyakov loop in pure SU(3) gauge theory. Using a multilevel algorithm and tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-11-11 Nora Brambilla , Viljami Leino , Peter Petreczky , Antonio Vairo
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