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We solve the Lindblad equation describing the Brownian motion of a Coulombic heavy quark-antiquark pair in a strongly coupled quark gluon plasma using the Monte Carlo wave function method. The Lindblad equation has been derived in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-16 Peter Vander Griend

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

By coupling the Boltzmann transport equations of both quarkonium and open heavy quarks, we investigate their dynamical evolution inside the quark-gluon plasma and study quarkonium production in heavy ion collisions. The Boltzmann transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Xiaojun Yao , Weiyao Ke , Yingru Xu , Steffen Bass , Berndt Müller

We report on progress in the nonperturbative understanding of quarkonium dynamics inside a thermal plasma. The time evolution of small-size quarkonium is governed by two-point correlation functions of chromoelectric fields dressed with an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-20 Govert Nijs , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Xiaojun Yao

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

We present a data-driven analysis within a quantum evolutionary microscopic framework to constrain the in-medium bottomonium potential. In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, bottomonium bound states serve as invaluable probes of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Shuhan Zheng , Baoyi Chen , Xiaojian Du , Shuzhe Shi

The suppression of bottomonia in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions is a smoking gun for the production of a strongly interacting final state in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Furthermore, these final state interactions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-04 Michael Strickland

With a view to understanding J/$\Psi$ suppression in relativistic heavy ion collisions, we compute the suppression rate within the framework of hydrodynamical evolution model. For this, we consider an ellipsoidal flow and use an ansatz for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-12 Santosh K. Karn

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 compute bottomonium suppression and elliptic flow within the pNRQCD effective field theory using an open quantum systems approach. For the hydrodynamical background, we use 2+1D MUSIC second-order viscous hydrodynamics with IP-Glasma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-21 Huda Alalawi , Jacob Boyd , Chun Shen , Michael Strickland

Emphasizing the possibility of moderate suppression of heavy quarkonium states, we invite some attention towards the issue of real time evolution of quarkonia during the cooling phase of quark gluon plasma(QGP). In this context, we have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-16 Nirupam Dutta , Partha Bagchi , Jobin Sebastian

We compute the energy loss of heavy quarkonia in high temperature QCD plasmas and investigate the energy loss effects on quarkonium suppression. Based on the effective vertex derived from the Bethe-Salpeter amplitude for quarkonium, the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-05-20 Juhee Hong , Su Houng Lee

Many prior studies of in-medium quarkonium suppression have implicitly made use of an adiabatic approximation in which it was assumed that the heavy quark potential is a slowly varying function of time. In the adiabatic limit, one can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-30 Jacob Boyd , Thomas Cook , Ajaharul Islam , Michael Strickland

In this thesis, we make progress in two concrete directions in the vast landscape of hot QCD physics. The first one is quarkonium transport inside quark-gluon plasma (QGP), the high temperature phase of QCD. Over the past two decades it has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-31 Bruno Sebastian Scheihing-Hitschfeld

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

In this paper we consider the suppression of bottomonium states in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. We compute the suppression as a function of centrality, rapidity, and transverse momentum for the states Upsilon(1s), Upsilon(2s),…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-22 Michael Strickland , Dennis Bazow

We present here a comprehensive model to describe the bottomonium suppression data obtained from the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at center-of-mass energy of $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76$ TeV. We employ a quasiparticle model (QPM) equation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-04 S. Ganesh , M. Mishra

We study the production of bottomonium states in heavy-ion reactions at collider energies available at RHIC and LHC. We employ an earlier constructed rate equation approach which accounts for both suppression and regeneration mechanisms in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 A. Emerick , X. Zhao , R. Rapp

I review recent applications of the open quantum system framework in the understanding of quarkonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions, which has been used as a probe of the quark-gluon plasma for decades. The derivation of the Lindblad…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-10 Xiaojun Yao

In this paper we study the real-time evolution of heavy quarkonium in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) on the basis of the open quantum systems approach. In particular, we shed light on how quantum dissipation affects the dynamics of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Takahiro Miura , Yukinao Akamatsu , Masayuki Asakawa , Alexander Rothkopf