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The heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient ($\kappa$) is one of the most essential ingredients for the Langevin description of heavy quark dynamics. In the temperature regime relevant to the heavy ion collision phenomenology, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-27 Sadaf Madni , Arghya Mukherjee , Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Najmul Haque

We discuss recent developments in assessing heavy-quark interaction in the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). While induced gluon radiation is expected to be the main energy-loss mechanism for fast-moving quarks, we focus on elastic scattering which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Rapp , H. van Hees

We construct a theoretical framework to describe the evolution of heavy flavors produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The in-medium energy loss of heavy quarks is described using our modified Langevin equation that incorporates…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-19 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Steffen A. Bass

This paper presents a comparative analysis of three distinct methods used to calculate the collisional energy loss of heavy quarks in Quark-Gluon Plasma. The study focuses on the calculation of the nuclear suppression factor of charm quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-30 Marjan Rahimi Nezhad , Fatemeh Taghavi Shahri , Sharareh Mehrabi Pari , Kurosh Javidan

By applying a Bayesian model-to-data analysis, we estimate the temperature and momentum dependence of the heavy quark diffusion coefficient in an improved Langevin framework. The posterior range of the diffusion coefficient is obtained by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Yingru Xu , Marlene Nahrgang , Shanshan Cao , Jonah E. Bernhard , Steffen A. Bass

We calculate the balance function for charm in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The distribution of pairs of charm-anticharm quarks produced in hard processes in the early stages of the nucleus-nucleus collision evolves in the dense…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 Tribhuban Parida , Piotr Bozek , Sandeep Chatterjee

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

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 present a model for radiative energy loss of heavy quarks in quark gluon plasma which incorporates coherence effects. We then study its consequences on the radiation spectra as well as on the nuclear modification factor of open heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 Pol Bernard Gossiaux

A Langevin equation of heavy quarks in high-temperature quark-gluon plasma is derived. The dynamics of heavy quark color is coupled with the phase space dynamics and causes a macroscopic superposition state of heavy quark momentum.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-23 Yukinao Akamatsu

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

Application of Fokker-Planck equation to heavy quark transport in the evolving medium created in heavy ion collision is critically scrutinised. We realise that the approach introduces a moderate uncertainty in drag and diffusion…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-01-29 Nirupam Dutta , Trambak Bhattacharyya

The relativistic Fokker Planck equation has been used to study the evolution of the quark distribution in the quark gluon phase expected to be formed in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The effect of thermal masses for quarks and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Pradip Roy , Jane Alam , Sourav Sarkar , Bikash Sinha , Sibaji Raha

We have implemented a Langevin approach for the transport of heavy quarks in the UrQMD hybrid model. The UrQMD hybrid approach provides a realistic description of the background medium for the evolution of relativistic heavy ion collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-13 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

The heavy quark drag and momentum diffusion have been investigated in a hot magnetized quark-gluon plasma, along the directions parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. The analysis is done within the framework of Fokker-Planck…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-09 Manu Kurian , Santosh K. Das , Vinod Chandra

We implement a Langevin approach for the transport of charm quarks in the UrQMD (hydrodynamics + Boltzmann) hybrid model. Due to the inclusion of event-by-event fluctuations and a full (3+1) dimensional hydrodynamic evolution, this approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-16 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

We study open charm flavor observables in Pb+Pb collision at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}= 2.76$ TeV within the MARTINI framework. The space-time expansion of the quark-gluon plasma is described using the hydrodynamical approach-MUSIC with IP-Glasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-11-09 Mayank Singh , Manu Kurian , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

We apply the momentum integrated Boltzmann transport equation to study the time evolution of various quark flavours in the central region of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. The effects of thermal masses for quarks and gluons are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Jane Alam , Pradip Roy , Sourav Sarkar , Sibaji Raha , Bikash Sinha

The response of electromagnetic (EM) fields that are produced in non-central heavy-ion collisions to electromagnetically charged quark gluon plasma can be understood in terms of charge transport and charge diffusion in the hot QCD medium.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 Sukanya Mitra , Vinod Chandra

We propose a model for the propagation of a heavy-quark in a hot plasma, to be viewed as a first step towards a full description of the dynamics of heavy quark systems in a quark-gluon plasma, including bound state formation. The heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 A. Beraudo , J. P. Blaizot , P. Faccioli , G. Garberoglio