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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 12: Heavy-Ion Collisions and QCD Phases III

HK 12.5: Talk

Monday, March 28, 2022, 17:15–17:30, HK-H1

Hydrodynamic approach to heavy-quark diffusion in the quark-gluon plasma — •Federica Capellino1,2, Andrea Beraudo3, Andrea Dubla2, Stefan Floerchinger4, Silvia Masciocchi1,2, Jan M. Pawlowski4, and Ilya Selyuzhenkov21Physikalisches Institut Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany — 2GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt, Germany — 3INFN Sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy — 4Institut für Theoretische Physik, Heidelberg, Germany

In this work, a new hydrodynamic approach to the transport of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is presented. We exploit the conservation of the number of heavy quark-antiquark pairs within the evolution of the QGP to construct causal second-order hydrodynamic equations of motion. The hydrodynamic transport coefficients associated with the heavy-quark diffusion current are then compared with the momentum-diffusion coefficients obtained in transport theory (Fokker-Planck equation). By investigating the relation between the two approaches, we provide new insights concerning the level of local thermalization of charm and bottom quarks inside the expanding QGP. Our results show that a fluid dynamic description of diffusion is feasible for charm quarks. In particular, in Bjorken flow the hydrodynamization time of charm quarks is in general short compared to the typical expansion time of the QGP, justifying a fluid description of charm diffusion. This work is funded via the DFG ISOQUANT Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1225).

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