Quark Gluon Plasma transport coefficients for heavy quarks and View the MathML sourceQQ¯ pairs are computed through an extension of the results obtained for a hot QED plasma by describing the heavy-quark propagation in the eikonal approximation and by weighting the gauge-field configurations with the Hard Thermal Loop effective action. It is shown that such a model allows to correctly reproduce, at leading logarithmic accuracy, the results obtained by other independent approaches. The results are then inserted into a relativistic Langevin equation allowing to follow the evolution of the heavy-quark momentum spectra. Our numerical findings are also compared with the ones obtained in a strongly-coupled scenario, namely with the transport coefficients predicted (though with some limitations and ambiguities) by the AdS/CFT correspondence.

Transport properties and Langevin dynamics of heavy quarks and quarkonia in the Quark Gluon Plasma

BERAUDO, ANDREA;ALBERICO, Wanda Maria;MOLINARI, Alfredo
2009-01-01

Abstract

Quark Gluon Plasma transport coefficients for heavy quarks and View the MathML sourceQQ¯ pairs are computed through an extension of the results obtained for a hot QED plasma by describing the heavy-quark propagation in the eikonal approximation and by weighting the gauge-field configurations with the Hard Thermal Loop effective action. It is shown that such a model allows to correctly reproduce, at leading logarithmic accuracy, the results obtained by other independent approaches. The results are then inserted into a relativistic Langevin equation allowing to follow the evolution of the heavy-quark momentum spectra. Our numerical findings are also compared with the ones obtained in a strongly-coupled scenario, namely with the transport coefficients predicted (though with some limitations and ambiguities) by the AdS/CFT correspondence.
2009
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59
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2009.09.002
A. Beraudo; A. De Pace; W.M. Alberico; A. Molinari
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