QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

[HTML][HTML] Heavy quarkonium in extreme conditions

A Rothkopf - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
In this report we review recent progress achieved in the understanding of heavy quarkonium
under extreme conditions from a theory perspective. Its focus lies both on quarkonium …

Prospects for quarkonium studies at the high-luminosity LHC

E Chapon, D d'Enterria, B Ducloue… - Progress in Particle and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Prospects for quarkonium-production studies accessible during the upcoming high-
luminosity phases of the CERN Large Hadron Collider operation after 2021 are reviewed …

Coupled Boltzmann transport equations of heavy quarks and quarkonia in quark-gluon plasma

X Yao, W Ke, Y Xu, SA Bass, B Müller - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We develop a framework of coupled transport equations for open heavy flavor and
quarkonium states, in order to describe their transport inside the quark-gluon plasma. Our …

Hot QCD white paper

M Arslandok, SA Bass, AA Baty, I Bautista… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Hot QCD physics studies the nuclear strong force under extreme temperature and densities.
Experimentally these conditions are achieved via high-energy collisions of heavy ions at the …

Quarkonium in quark–gluon plasma: Open quantum system approaches re-examined

Y Akamatsu - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Dissociation of quarkonium in quark–gluon plasma (QGP) is a long standing topic in
relativistic heavy-ion collisions because it has been believed to signal one of the …

Heavy quarkonium dynamics at next-to-leading order in the binding energy over temperature

N Brambilla, MÁ Escobedo, A Islam… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract Using the potential non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (pNRQCD) effective
field theory, we derive a Lindblad equation for the evolution of the heavy-quarkonium …

Quarkonium in-medium transport equation derived from first principles

X Yao, T Mehen - Physical Review D, 2019 - APS
We use the open quantum system formalism to study the dynamical in-medium evolution of
quarkonium. The system of quarkonium is described by potential nonrelativistic QCD while …

Liouvillian dynamics of the open Schwinger model: String breaking and kinetic dissipation in a thermal medium

K Lee, J Mulligan, F Ringer, X Yao - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Understanding the dynamics of bound state formation is one of the fundamental questions in
confining quantum field theories such as Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). One …

Non-Abelian electric field correlator at NLO for dark matter relic abundance and quarkonium transport

T Binder, K Mukaida, B Scheihing-Hitschfeld… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We perform a complete next-to-leading order calculation of the non-Abelian electric
field correlator in a SU (N c) plasma, which encodes properties of the plasma relevant for …