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1-loop matching of a thermal Lorentz force

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-25 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

Studying the diffusion and kinetic equilibration of heavy quarks within a hot QCD medium profits from the knowledge of a coloured Lorentz force that acts on them. Starting from the spatial components of the vector current, and carrying out two matching computations, one for the heavy quark mass scale (MM) and another for thermal scales (MT\sqrt{MT}, TT), we determine 1-loop matching coefficients for the electric and magnetic parts of a Lorentz force. The magnetic part has a non-zero anomalous dimension, which agrees with that extracted from two other considerations, one thermal and the other in vacuum. The matching coefficient could enable a lattice study of a colour-magnetic 2-point correlator.

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@article{arxiv.2103.14270,
  title  = {1-loop matching of a thermal Lorentz force},
  author = {M. Laine},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.14270},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages. v2: clarifications added

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