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 …

Extraction of heavy-flavor transport coefficients in QCD matter

R Rapp, PB Gossiaux, A Andronic, R Averbeck… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
We report on broadly based systematic investigations of the modeling components for open
heavy-flavor diffusion and energy loss in strongly interacting matter in their application to …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Nonperturbative estimate of the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient

A Francis, O Kaczmarek, M Laine, T Neuhaus, H Ohno - Physical review D, 2015 - APS
We estimate the momentum diffusion coefficient of a heavy quark within a pure SU (3)
plasma at a temperature of about 1.5 T c. Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations on a series of …

Scattering lengths of Nambu-Goldstone bosons off mesons and dynamically generated heavy-light mesons

M Altenbuchinger, LS Geng, W Weise - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
Recent lattice QCD simulations of the scattering lengths of Nambu-Goldstone bosons off the
D mesons are studied using unitary chiral perturbation theory. We show that the lattice QCD …

Propagation of heavy baryons in heavy-ion collisions

SK Das, JM Torres-Rincon, L Tolos, V Minissale… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
The drag and diffusion coefficients of heavy baryons (Λ c and Λ b) in the hadronic phase
created in the latter stage of the heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies have been …

The hot QCD white paper: exploring the phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC

Y Akiba, A Angerami, H Caines, A Frawley… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
The past decade has seen huge advances in experimental measurements made in heavy
ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and more recently at the Large …