Heavy quarks and jets as probes of the QGP

L Apolinário, YJ Lee, M Winn - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP), a QCD state of matter created in ultra-relativistic
heavy-ion collisions, has remarkable properties including, for example, a low shear viscosity …

Heavy-quark diffusion in the quark–gluon plasma

M He, H van Hees, R Rapp - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-
energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport …

Extraction of heavy-flavor transport coefficients in QCD matter

R Rapp, PB Gossiaux, A Andronic, R Averbeck… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
We report on broadly based systematic investigations of the modeling components for open
heavy-flavor diffusion and energy loss in strongly interacting matter in their application to …

[HTML][HTML] Directed flow of charm quarks as a witness of the initial strong magnetic field in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions

SK Das, S Plumari, S Chatterjee, J Alam, F Scardina… - Physics Letters B, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collision (HIC) generates very strong initial magnetic
field (B→) inducing a vorticity in the reaction plane. The high B→ influences the evolution …

Open heavy flavor in QCD matter and in nuclear collisions

F Prino, R Rapp - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the experimental and theoretical status of open heavy-flavor (HF) production in
high-energy nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large …

Future physics opportunities for high-density QCD at the LHC with heavy-ion and proton beams

Z Citron, A Dainese, JF Grosse-Oetringhaus… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2018 - arxiv.org
The future opportunities for high-density QCD studies with ion and proton beams at the LHC
are presented. Four major scientific goals are identified: the characterisation of the …

Estimating the charm quark diffusion coefficient and thermalization time from meson spectra at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the …

F Scardina, SK Das, V Minissale, S Plumari, V Greco - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We describe the propagation of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of
a Boltzmann transport approach. Nonperturbative interaction between heavy quarks and …

Toward the determination of heavy-quark transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma

S Cao, G Coci, SK Das, W Ke, SYF Liu, S Plumari… - Physical Review C, 2019 - APS
Several transport models have been employed in recent years to analyze heavy-flavor
meson spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-quark transport coefficients …

Transmission of airborne virus through sneezed and coughed droplets

SK Das, J Alam, S Plumari, V Greco - Physics of Fluids, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
The spread of COVID19 through droplets ejected by infected individuals during sneezing
and coughing has been considered a matter of key concern. Therefore, a quantitative …

[HTML][HTML] Toward a solution to the RAA and v2 puzzle for heavy quarks

SK Das, F Scardina, S Plumari, V Greco - Physics Letters B, 2015 - Elsevier
The heavy quarks constitute a unique probe of the quark–gluon plasma properties. A
puzzling relation between the nuclear modification factor RAA (p T) and the elliptic flow v 2 …