Published January 2021 | Version v1
Journal article

Heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient in 3D gluon plasma

  • 1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technische Universität Wien, 1040 Vienna (Austria)
  • 2. Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Jyvaskyla, P.O. Box 35, 40014 University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
  • 4. Helsinki Institute of Physics, P.O. Box 64, 00014 University of Helsinki (Finland)
  • 5. Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, 4036 Stavanger (Norway)
  • 6. European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas - ECT* and Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Strada delle Tabarelle 286, I-38123 Villazzano (Italy)

Description

We study the heavy-quark momentum diffusion coefficient in far from equilibrium gluon plasma in a self-similar regime using real-time lattice techniques. We use 3 methods for the extraction: an unequal time electric field 2-point correlator integrated over the time difference, a spectral reconstruction (SR) method based on the measured equal time electric field correlator and a kinetic theory (KT) formula. The time-evolution of the momentum diffusion coefficient extracted using all methods is consistent with an approximate t12 power law. We also study the extracted diffusion coefficient as a function of the upper limit of the time integration and observe that including the infrared enhancement of the equal-time correlation function in the SR calculation improves the agreement with the data for transient time behavior considerably. This is a gauge invariant confirmation of the infrared enhancement previously observed only in gauge fixed correlation functions.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2020.121970

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2020.121970;
PII
S0375947420302803;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
1005
Journal Page Range
vp.
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

Conference

Title
28. International Conference on Ultra-relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions
Acronym
Quark Matter 2019
Dates
4-9 Nov 2019
Place
Wuhan (China)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
54091290
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
B QUARKS; C QUARKS; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FLAVOR MODEL; GAUGE INVARIANCE; GLUONS; KINETICS; PLASMA; T QUARKS; TRANSIENTS
Descriptors DEC
BEAUTY PARTICLES; BOSONS; CHARM PARTICLES; COMPOSITE MODELS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FUNCTIONS; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTICLE MODELS; POSTULATED PARTICLES; QUARK MODEL; QUARKS; TOP PARTICLES

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