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HK: Fachverband Hadronen und Kerne

HK 55: Heavy Ion Collisions and QCD phases

HK 55.5: Talk

Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 18:00–18:15, H-ZO 10

Heavy quark observables from first principles — •Marcus Tassler — Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Muenster, Germany

The heavy-quark diffusion constant as well as the recently introduced real-time static potential, generalizing the concept of a static potential to a thermal medium, are discussed. A derivation of these quantities for a strongly anisotropic medium, as present in the initial phase of heavy ion collisions, is presented. The corresponding analytic results from first principles are supplemented by results obtained using real-time lattice techniques.