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We study two-color QCD with two flavors of Wilson fermion as a function of quark chemical potential mu and temperature T. We find evidence of a superfluid phase at intermediate mu and low T where the quark number density and diquark…

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We investigate the scattering of a quark on a heavy nucleus at high energies using the time-dependent basis light-front quantization (tBLFQ) formalism, which is the first application of the tBLFQ formalism in QCD. We present the real-time…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Meijian Li , Xingbo Zhao , Pieter Maris , Guangyao Chen , Yang Li , Kirill Tuchin , James P. Vary

We present a determination of the strong coupling constant and heavy quark masses in (2+1)-flavor QCD using lattice calculations of the moments of the pseudo-scalar quarkonium correlators at several values of the heavy valence quark mass…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2019-09-10 P. Petreczky , J. H. Weber

We study the dynamics of charm quarks in the partonic medium and its implication to the di-electron spectra in high energy heavy ion collisions. The charm quarks traversing a thermal medium is simulated by the relativistic Langevin equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-22 Hao-jie Xu , Xin Dong , Li-juan Ruan , Qun Wang , Zhang-bu Xu , Yi-fei Zhang

We numerically investigate the self-diffusion coefficient and correlation length of the rigid clusters (i.e., the typical size of the collective motions) in sheared soft athermal particles. Here we find that the rheological flow curves on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-26 Kuniyasu Saitoh , Takeshi Kawasaki

We study the diffusion properties of an interacting hadron gas and evaluate the diffusion coefficient matrix for the baryon, strange, electric, and charm quantum numbers. For the first time, this study sheds light on the charm current and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Kangkan Goswami , Kshitish Kumar Pradhan , Dushmanta Sahu , Jayanta Dey , Raghunath Sahoo

It is argued that heavy-quarks traversing a Quark Gluon Plasma, undergo a multi-stage modification process, similar to the case of light flavors. Such an approach is applied to heavy-quark energy loss, which includes a rare-scattering,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-22 Shanshan Cao , Abhijit Majumder , Guang-You Qin , Chun Shen

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-17 Xu-Fei Xue , Zi-Xuan Xu , Wei Dai , Jiaxing Zhao , Ben-Wei Zhang

Quark deconfinement phase transition at finite temperature and density is investigated in the frame of quantum mechanics. By solving the Schr\"odinger equation for a heavy quark in a thermal mean field, we calculate the quark probability…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lianyi He , Guang Bian , Jinfeng Liao , Pengfei Zhuang

We obtain the spatial and momentum diffusion coefficients ($D_s$ and $\kappa$), and the collisional energy loss ($dE/dx$) of a heavy quark (HQ) traversing through a thermal medium of quarks and gluons in a weak magnetic field ($B$), for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-12 Debarshi Dey , Binoy krishna Patra

The chirally unbroken and the superconducting 2SC and CFL phases are investigated in the chiral limit within a Dyson-Schwinger approach for the quark propagator in QCD. The hierarchy of Green's functions is truncated such that at vanishing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Dominik Nickel , Jochen Wambach , Reinhard Alkofer

In connection with massless two-flavour QCD, we analyse the chiral symmetry restoring phase transition using three distinct gluon-quark vertices and two different assumptions about the long-range part of the quark-quark interaction. In each…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-29 Fei Gao , Si-Xue Qin , Yu-Xin Liu , Craig D. Roberts , Sebastian M. Schmidt

We propose a model for Quantum Chromodynamics, obtained by ignoring the angular dependence of the gluon fields, which could qualitatively describe systems containing one heavy quark. This leads to a two dimensional gauge theory which has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 K. S. Gupta , S. Guruswamy , S. G. Rajeev

We revisited gluon bremsstrahlung off a heavy quark in nuclear matter within higher twist formalism. In this work, we demonstrate that, in addition to transverse momentum diffusion parameter ($\hat q$), the gluon emission spectrum for a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-19 Raktim Abir , Shanshan Cao , Abhijit Majumder , Guang-You Qin

The energy-momentum tensor plays an important role in QCD thermodynamics. Its expectation value contains information of the pressure and the energy density as its diagonal part. Further properties like viscosity and specific heat can be…

The spectra of lepton pairs from correlated open charm and bottom decays in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are calculated. Our approach includes energy loss effects of the fast heavy quarks in deconfined matter which are determined…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Kämpfer , O. P. Pavlenko , K. Gallmeister

We have simulated QCD using 2+1 flavors of domain wall quarks on a $(2.74 {\rm fm})^3$ volume with an inverse lattice scale of $a^{-1} = 1.729(28)$ GeV. The up and down (light) quarks are degenerate in our calculations and we have used four…

A characteristic signature of quark confinement is the concentration of the chromoelectric field between a static quark-antiquark pair in a flux tube. However, the structure of this flux tube, and hence of the confining force, has not been…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-09 M. Baker , V. Chelnokov , L. Cosmai , F. Cuteri , A. Papa

Effects of heavy sea quarks on the low energy physics are described by an effective theory where the expansion parameter is the inverse quark mass, 1/$M$. At leading order in 1/$M$ (and neglecting light quark masses) the dependence of any…

We present a microscopic calculation of the electric conductivity and net-particle diffusion coefficients for a viscous and resistive ultra-relativistic plasma. Our results might be of interest for several astrophysical and cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Ferdinando Frascà , Andrea Beraudo , Luca Del Zanna