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The propagation of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been often treated within the framework of the Langevin equation (LV), i.e. assuming the momentum transfer is small or the scatterings are sufficiently forward peaked,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-13 Santosh K. Das , Francesco Scardina , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

This dissertation focuses on the calculation of transport coefficients in the matter created in a relativistic heavy-ion collision after the chemical freeze-out. This matter can be well approximated by a pion gas out of equilibrium. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-04 Juan M. Torres-Rincon

We calculate the collisional energy loss and momentum diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks traversing a hot and dense QCD medium at finite quark chemical potential, $\mu\neq0$. The analysis is performed within an extended soft-hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Jiale Lou , Wu Wang , Jiazhen Peng , Fei Sun , Kejun Wu , Wei Xie , Zuman Zhang , Shuang Li , Sa Wang

Combining the hydrodynamic model (Hydro code) and the transport model (PACIAE model), we present the Hydro-PACIAE hybrid model. We use the Hydro-PACIAE hybrid model to calculate Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$=130 GeV and Pb+Pb…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Yu-Liang Yan , Yun Cheng , Dai-Mei Zhou , Bao-Guo Dong , Xu Cai , Ben-Hao Sa , Laszlo P. Csernai

The main focus of this article is to obtain various transport coefficients for a hot QCD medium that is produced while colliding two heavy nuclei ultra-relativistically. As the hot QCD medium follows dissipative hydrodynamics while…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Sukanya Mitra , Vinod Chandra

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

A refined version of a multi-step calculation of heavy-flavor observables in pp and AA collisions has been developed, based on pQCD at NLO accuracy followed by parton shower evolution to describe heavy-quark production and on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-06 W. M. Alberico , A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , M. Monteno , A. Molinari , M. Nardi , F. Prino

The transport properties of the strongly-coupled quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are extracted by Bayesian parameter estimate methods with the latest collision beam energy data from LHC. This Bayesian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 J. E. Parkkila , A. Onnerstad , D. J. Kim

The transport coefficients are known as the measure of system interactions, as well as the dynamical input of the hydrodynamic evolution equations of an expanding system created in the relativistic heavy ion collisions. In the current…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-25 Sukanya Mitra

The quality of data taken at RHIC and LHC as well as the success and sophistication of computational models for the description of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions have advanced to a level that allows for the quantitative extraction…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-14 Steffen A. Bass , Jonah E. Bernhard , J. Scott Moreland

We calculate diffusion and hadronization of heavy quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions implementing the notion of a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in both micro- and macroscopic components. The diffusion process is simulated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

Thermalization and collective flow of charm (c) and bottom (b) quarks in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are evaluated based on elastic parton rescattering in an expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We show that resonant interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hendrik van Hees , Vincenzo Greco , Ralf Rapp

Heavy flavor probes are sensitive to the properties of the quark gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A huge amount of effort has been devoted to studying different aspects of the heavy-ion collisions using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-07-08 Caio A. G. Prado , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

Using combined data from the Relativistic Heavy Ion and Large Hadron Colliders, we constrain the shear and bulk viscosities of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) at temperatures of ${\sim\,}150{-}350$ MeV. We use Bayesian inference to translate…

The Langevin diffusion process of a relativistic heavy quark in a non-conformal holographic setup is discussed. The bulk geometry is a general, five-dimensional asymptotically AdS black hole. The heavy quark is described by a trailing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-04 U. Gursoy , E. Kiritsis , L. Mazzanti , F. Nitti

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

We attempt to understand the low-mass dielectron enhancement observed by PHENIX Collaboration at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) by transport peak in the spectral function. On the basis of the second-order formalism of relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Yukinao Akamatsu , Hideki Hamagaki , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tetsufumi Hirano

The propagation of heavy flavor through the quark gluon plasma has been treated commonly within the framework of Langevin dynamics, i.e. assuming the heavy flavor momentum transfer is much smaller than the light one. On the other hand a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Santosh K. Das , Francesco Scardina , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

The heavy quarks (HQs) are unique probe of the hot QCD matter properties and their dynamics is coupled to the locally thermalized expanding quark gluon plasma. We present here a novel study of the event by event correlations between light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-06 Salvatore Plumari , Gabriele Coci , Vincenzo Minissale , Santosh K. Das , Yifeng Sun , Vincenzo Greco

Stochastic dynamics play a central role in strongly coupled phenomena. We present and review a theory independent approach in holography to study such phenomena. We firstly argue that the heavy quark diffusion occurs in realistic strongly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-24 Dimitrios Giataganas