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The propagation of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) has been often treated within the framework of the Langevin equation (LV), i.e. assuming the momentum transfer is small or the scatterings are sufficiently forward peaked,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-10-13 Santosh K. Das , Francesco Scardina , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

We present the first study of the quark mass dependence of the heavy quark momentum and spatial diffusion coefficients using lattice QCD with light dynamical quarks corresponding to a pion mass of 320 MeV. We find that, for the temperature…

The drag and diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks (HQs) have been evaluated in the pre-equilibrium phase of the evolving fireball produced in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. The KLN and classical Yang-Mills spectra have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-05 Santosh K. Das , Marco Ruggieri , Surasree Mazumder , Vincenzo Greco , Jan-e Alam

The hard-loop resummed propagator in an anisotropic QCD plasma in general linear gauges are computed. We get the explicit expressions of the gluon propagator in covariant gauge, Coulomb gauge and temporal axial gauge. Considering one gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Yun Guo

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

We attempt to understand the low-mass dielectron enhancement observed by PHENIX Collaboration at Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) by transport peak in the spectral function. On the basis of the second-order formalism of relativistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Yukinao Akamatsu , Hideki Hamagaki , Tetsuo Hatsuda , Tetsufumi Hirano

The interactions of heavy quarks with the partonic environment at finite temperature $T$ and finite quark chemical potential $\mu_q$ are investigated in terms of transport coefficients within the Dynamical Quasi-Particle model (DQPM)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-11 H. Berrehrah , P. B. Gossiaux , J. Aichelin , W. Cassing , J. M. Torres-Rincon , E. Bratkovskaya

We find that heavy quark transport beyond leading logarithm at weak coupling is intrinsically non-Gaussian: the longitudinal momentum transfer distribution has asymmetric exponential tails that are crucial for equilibration dynamics. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-24 Jean F. Du Plessis , Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld

The chromo-electromagnetic field is produced due to the motion of partons in a quark-gluon plasma created by relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The fluctuations in the produced chromo-electromagnetic field are important, since they cause…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-08 Ashik Ikbal Sheikh , Zubayer Ahammed

We study vacuum masses of charmonia and the charm-quark diffusion coefficient in the quark-gluon plasma based on the spectral representation for meson correlators. To calculate the correlators, we solve the quark gap equation and the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-08-29 Si-xue Qin , Dirk H. Rischke

An effective, low-energy, field theory of s-wave quarkonia, constituent heavy quarks, and gluons is constructed which is manifestly gauge invariant. The interaction Lagrangian has the form of a twist expansion, as typically encountered in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 Rafia Ali , Pervez Hoodbhoy

We consider the quarkonium diffusion, dissociation and recombination inside quark-gluon plasma. We compute scattering amplitudes in potential nonrelativistic QCD for relevant processes. These processes include the gluon absorption/emission…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-10 Xiaojun Yao , Berndt Müller

Heavy quarks are powerful tools to characterize the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic nuclear collisions. By exploiting a mapping between transport theory and hydrodynamics, we developed a fluid-dynamic description of…

In an intermediate-momentum regime where mass effects are significant, heavy quark suppression and anisotropic flow are computed to investigate the transition between the collisional and radiative energy loss. Based on the collision kernel…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Juhee Hong

Electric conductivity is sensitive to effective cross sections among the particles of the partonic medium. We investigate the electric conductivity of a hot plasma of quarks and gluons, solving the relativistic Boltzmann equation. In order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Moritz Greif , Ioannis Bouras , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

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

To estimate the diffusion constant $D$ of particles in a plasma, we develop a method that is based on the mean free path $\lambda$ for scatterings with momentum transfer $q >~ T$. Using this method, we estimate $\lambda$ and $D$ for squarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hooman Davoudiasl , Eric Westphal

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 heavy charm and bottom quarks are unique probes of the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions. A key challenge in this context is to embed the interactions of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Tharun Krishna , Ralf Rapp , Yu Fu , Steffen A. Bass , Weiyao Ke

Heavy quarks and quarkonia are versatile probes of the transport properties of the hot QCD medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions (URHICs). A robust description of heavy-flavor transport coefficients requires a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-01-12 Biaogang Wu , Zhanduo Tang , Ralf Rapp