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We develop a set of coupled Boltzmann equations to describe the dynamical evolution of heavy quarks and quarkonia inside the quark-gluon plasma. The quarkonium dissociation and recombination terms are calculated from pNRQCD. Their interplay…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen Bass , Berndt Müller

Using the open quantum system formalism and effective field theory of QCD, we derive the Boltzmann transport equation of quarkonium inside the quark-gluon plasma. Our derivation illuminates that the success of transport equations in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen A. Bass , Thomas Mehen , Berndt Müller

Motivated by recent applications of the open quantum system formalism to understand quarkonium transport in the quark-gluon plasma, we develop a set of coupled Boltzmann equations for open heavy quark-antiquark pairs and quarkonia. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-15 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen A. Bass , Berndt Müller

Transport equations have been applied successfully to describe the quarkonium evolution inside the quark-gluon plasma, which include both plasma screening effects and recombination. We demonstrate how the quarkonium transport equation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-03 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen Bass , Thomas Mehen , Berndt Müller

We develop a framework of coupled transport equations for open heavy flavor and quarkonium states, in order to describe their transport inside the quark-gluon plasma. Our framework is capable of studying simultaneously both open and hidden…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-22 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen A. Bass , Berndt Müller

We use the open quantum system formalism to study the dynamical in-medium evolution of quarkonium. The system of quarkonium is described by potential non-relativistic QCD while the environment is a weakly coupled quark-gluon plasma in local…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-04 Xiaojun Yao , Thomas Mehen

We study the production of the conventional quarkonium states in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions using an open quantum system framework based on the Lindblad equation. Starting from the complex-valued in-medium potential, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-20 Néstor Armesto , Miguel Ángel Escobedo , Elena G. Ferreiro , Víctor López-Pardo

Quarkonium production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions remains a key probe of the quark-gluon plasma formed in these reactions, but the development of a fully integrated nonperturbative approach remains a challenge. Toward this end, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-22 Biaogang Wu , Ralf Rapp

We simulate the heavy quarkonium equilibration through transport in a static and homogeneous quark-gluon plasma (QGP) box within the semi-classical Boltzmann approach incorporating both the leading-order and next-to-leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-19 Shouxing Zhao , Min He

We report on recent theory progress in understanding the production of heavy quarkonium in heavy-ion collisions based on the in-medium heavy-quark potential extracted from lattice QCD simulations. On the one hand, the proper in-medium…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Alexander Rothkopf

In the medium of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, dissociation of the quarkonium and their survival have been studied to understand the properties of Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP). The coupled rates of dissociation and recombination reactions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-22 Abdulla Abdulsalam , Mohsin Ilahi , Lana Alabbasi , Rafeeda Kassim

We describe bottomonium production not only in pp collisions but also in heavy-ion collisions by using the Remler's formalism where quarkonium density operator is applied to all possible combination of heavy quark and heavy antiquark pairs.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Taesoo Song , Joerg Aichelin , Jiaxing Zhao , Pol B. Gossiaux , Elena Bratkovskaya

Suppression of open heavy quarks and quarkonia in heavy-ion collisions are among the most informative probes of quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Interpreting the full wealth of data obtained from the collision events requires a precise theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-01 Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Xiaojun Yao

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

Recent measurements of polarization phenomena in relativistic heavy ion collisions have aroused a great interest in understanding dynamical spin evolution of the QCD matter. In particular, the spin alignment signature of $J/\psi$ has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-27 Di-Lun Yang , Xiaojun Yao

We review the transport properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (QGP) created in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic energies, i.e. out-of equilibrium, and compare them to the equilibrium properties. The description…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 Olga Soloveva , Pierre Moreau , Elena Bratkovskaya

This is a theoretical overview of quarkonium production in relativistic heavy ion collisions given for the Hard Probes 2024 conference in Nagasaki. The talk focuses on the application of the open quantum system framework and the formulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-02 Xiaojun Yao

Heavy quarks and quarkonia are versatile probes of the transport properties of the hot QCD medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs). A robust description of heavy-flavor transport coefficients requires a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Biaogang Wu , Zhanduo Tang , Ralf Rapp

We employ the Boltzmann equation for describing hadron production from a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We propose resonance formation in quark-antiquark scattering as the dominant meson-production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Ravagli , R. Rapp

The strong suppression of bottomonia production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a smoking gun for the creation of a deconfined quark-gluon plasma (QGP). In this proceedings contribution, I review recent work that aims to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Michael Strickland
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