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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

In these proceedings, we compute the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient using QCD effective kinetic theory for a plasma going through the bottom-up thermalization scenario until approximate hydrodynamization. This transport…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-25 Kirill Boguslavski , Aleksi Kurkela , Tuomas Lappi , Florian Lindenbauer , Jarkko Peuron

The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport properties. In addition, the experimentally observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Min He , Hendrik van Hees , Ralf Rapp

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

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 present the first calculations of the heavy flavor diffusion coefficient using lattice QCD with light dynamical quarks. For temperatures $195\,\mathrm{MeV}<T<352\,\mathrm{MeV}$, the heavy quark spatial diffusion coefficient is found to…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-07-13 Luis Altenkort , Olaf Kaczmarek , Rasmus Larsen , Swagato Mukherjee , Peter Petreczky , Hai-Tao Shu , Simon Stendebach

We calculate the heavy quark evolution in heavy ion collisions and show results for the elliptic flow $v_2$ as well as the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ at RHIC and LHC energies. For the calculation we implement a Langevin approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Yu-Peng Yan , Marcus Bleicher

In this note we consider a relativistic heavy quark which moves in the quark-gluon plasmas. By using the holographic methods, we analyze the Langevin diffusion process of this relativistic heavy quark. This heavy quark is described by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-11 Jafar Sadeghi , Fatemeh Pourasadollah

We derive a fluctuation dissipation relation connecting the drag and diffusion jet transport coefficients for an energetic light quark traversing a non-perturbative thermalized gluon plasma. The hard quark is taken to be close to on-shell,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-16 Amit Kumar , Abhijit Majumder , Ismail Soudi , Johannes Heinrich Weber

Recent open quantum system studies showed that quarkonium time evolution inside the quark-gluon plasma is determined by transport coefficients that are defined in terms of a gauge invariant correlator of two chromoelectric field operators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld , Xiaojun Yao

Heavy quark transport coefficients in a strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma can be evaluated using a gauge/string duality and lattice QCD. Via this duality, one can argue that for low momenta the drag coefficient for heavy quarks is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Oleg Andreev

We investigate the in-medium modifications of heavy quarkonia in the vector channel and the heavy quark diffusion coefficient by comparing Euclidean correlators from the lattice to a perturbative spectral function. On the lattice side, we…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-02-05 Anna-Lena Lorenz , Heng-Tong Ding , Olaf Kaczmarek , Hiroshi Ohno , Hauke Sandmeyer , Hai-Tao Shu

A fluid-dynamic approach to the diffusion of heavy quarks in the quark--gluon plasma (QGP) is presented. Specifically, we analyze the Fokker-Planck equation for the momentum transport of heavy quarks from a fluid perspective and use a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 F. Capellino , A. Beraudo , A. Dubla , S. Floerchinger , S. Masciocchi , J. Pawlowski , I. Selyuzhenkov

Numerical results for the transport coefficients of quark gluon plasma are obtained by lattice simulations on on $16^3 \times 8$ lattice with the quench approximation where we apply the gauge action proposed by Iwasaki. The bulk viscosity…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-31 Sunao Sakai , Atsushi Nakamura , Takuya Saito

We describe the propagation of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of a Boltzmann transport approach. Non-perturbative interaction between heavy quarks and light quarks have been taken into account through a quasi-particle…

We present a calculation of the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficients in a quark-gluon plasma under the presence of a strong external magnetic field, within the Lowest Landau Level (LLL) approximation. In particular, we apply the Hard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 Aritra Bandyopadhyay , Jinfeng Liao , Hongxi Xing

The propagation of heavy flavor through the quark gluon plasma has been treated commonly within the framework of Langevin dynamics, i.e. assuming the heavy flavor momentum transfer is much smaller than the light one. On the other hand a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Santosh K. Das , Francesco Scardina , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

The photon emissivity of quark-gluon plasma probes the interactions in the medium and differs qualitatively between a weakly coupled and a strongly coupled plasma in the soft-photon regime. The photon emissivity is given by the product of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2021-12-02 Marco Cè , Tim Harris , Harvey B. Meyer , Arianna Toniato , Csaba Török

The heavy quark propagation behavior inside the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), is usually described in terms of the Boltzmann dynamics, which can be reduced to the Langevin approach by assuming a small momentum transfer for the scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-05 Shuang Li , Chaowen Wang , Renzhuo Wan , Jinfeng Liao

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