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Heavy-flavor particles are believed to provide valuable probes of the medium produced in ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy nuclei. In this article we review recent progress in our understanding of the interactions of charm and bottom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Ralf Rapp , Hendrik van Hees

Dissociation of quarkonium in quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a long standing topic in relativistic heavy-ion collisions because it has been believed to signal one of the fundamental natures of the QGP -- Debye screening due to the liberation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-12-20 Yukinao Akamatsu

We report on recent research on the properties of elementary particle matter governed by the strong force at high temperatures, where QCD predicts hadrons to dissolve into the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). After a short introduction to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-05-04 R. Rapp , H. van Hees

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

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

Substantial anisotropies should occur in the hot expanding QCD plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions due to non-vanishing shear viscosity. We discuss the form of the real-time, hard thermal loop resummed propagator for static…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-27 Adrian Dumitru

The determination of the color force in a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a key objective in the investigation of strong-interaction matter. Open and hidden heavy-flavor observables in heavy-ion collisions (HICs) are believed to provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-15 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Min He , Ralf Rapp

The in-medium color potential is a fundamental quantity for understanding the properties of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma (sQGP). Open and hidden heavy-flavor (HF) production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs) has…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-19 Xiaojian Du , Shuai Y. F. Liu , Ralf Rapp

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

The quark gluon plasma (QGP) is one of the most interesting forms of matter providing us with insight on quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and the early universe. It is believed that the heavy-ion collision experiments at the Relativistic Heavy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Wenkai Fan

We calculate transport coefficients of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) within the dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) by explicitly computing the parton interaction rates as a function of temperature $T$ and baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Olga Soloveva , Pierre Moreau , Elena Bratkovskaya

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 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 investigate the transport properties of the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) by comparing the role of elastic and inelastic (radiative) processes in the sQGP medium within the effective dynamical quasi-particle model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-04 Ilia Grishmanovskii , Taesoo Song , Olga Soloveva , Carsten Greiner , Elena Bratkovskaya

This document summarizes the efforts of the EMMI Rapid Reaction Task Force on "Suppression and (re)generation of quarkonium in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC", centered around their 2019 and 2022 meetings. It provides a review of existing…

The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a strongly coupled medium in which both open and hidden charm particles experience substantial nonperturbative interactions. This poses a major challenge for a quantitative description of charmonium transport…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Kaiyu Fu , Biaogang Wu , Ralf Rapp

The heavy quark drag and momentum diffusion coefficients in the presence of both the collisional and radiative processes have been studied in a hot viscous QCD medium. The thermal medium effects are incorporated by employing the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Adiba Shaikh , Manu Kurian , Santosh K. Das , Vinod Chandra , Sadhana Dash , Basanta K. Nandi

We extend our investigation of heavy quark transport coefficients in the effective dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM) -- which reproduces nonperturbative QCD phenomena in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) according to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Ilia Grishmanovskii , Taesoo Song , Carsten Greiner , Elena Bratkovskaya

Understanding the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) offers insights into the strong interaction and the conditions of the early universe.Since the QGP cannot be observed directly, its properties must be inferred from the particles…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-08-20 Somadutta Bhatta

The heavy-quark (HQ) transport coefficients have been estimated for a viscous quark-gluon plasma medium, utilizing a recently proposed quasi-particle description based on realistic QGP equation of state (EoS). Interactions entering through…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-26 Santosh K. Das , Vinod Chandra , Jan-e Alam