Heavy quarks and jets as probes of the QGP

L Apolinário, YJ Lee, M Winn - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP), a QCD state of matter created in ultra-relativistic
heavy-ion collisions, has remarkable properties including, for example, a low shear viscosity …

Heavy-quark diffusion in the quark–gluon plasma

M He, H van Hees, R Rapp - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Open heavy flavor in QCD matter and in nuclear collisions

F Prino, R Rapp - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the experimental and theoretical status of open heavy-flavor (HF) production in
high-energy nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large …

Lattice QCD constraints on the heavy quark diffusion coefficient

N Brambilla, V Leino, P Petreczky, A Vairo… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We report progress toward computing the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient from
the correlator of two chromoelectric fields attached to a Polyakov loop in pure SU (3) gauge …

Open heavy-flavor production in heavy-ion collisions

X Dong, YJ Lee, R Rapp - Annual Review of Nuclear and …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The ultrarelativistic heavy-ion programs at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the Large
Hadron Collider have entered an era of quantitative analysis of quantum chromodynamics …

Estimating the charm quark diffusion coefficient and thermalization time from meson spectra at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the …

F Scardina, SK Das, V Minissale, S Plumari, V Greco - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We describe the propagation of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of
a Boltzmann transport approach. Nonperturbative interaction between heavy quarks and …

Charm production in Pb+ Pb collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

T Song, H Berrehrah, D Cabrera, W Cassing… - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
We study charm production in Pb+ Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV in the parton-hadron-
string-dynamics (PHSD) transport approach and the charm dynamics in the partonic and …

Toward the determination of heavy-quark transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma

S Cao, G Coci, SK Das, W Ke, SYF Liu, S Plumari… - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
Several transport models have been employed in recent years to analyze heavy-flavor
meson spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-quark transport coefficients …

Tomography of the quark-gluon plasma by charm quarks

T Song, H Berrehrah, D Cabrera, JM Torres-Rincon… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We study charm production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions by using the parton-
hadron-string dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. The initial charm quarks are produced …

Heavy quark production and properties of Quark–Gluon Plasma

X Dong, V Greco - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Heavy quarks (HQ) are believed to have unique roles for studying QCD at finite temperature
and baryon density. By comparing precision measurements of HQ hadron production in …