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Transport coefficients of heavy quarks by elastic and radiative scatterings in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma

Ilia Grishmanovskii1,*, Taesoo Song2, Carsten Greiner1,3, and Elena Bratkovskaya2,1,3

  • *Contact author: grishm@itp.uni-frankfurt.de
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Phys. Rev. D 112, 014042 – Published 28 July, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/rb24-dg58

Abstract

We extend our investigation of heavy quark transport coefficients in the effective dynamical quasiparticle model (DQPM)—which reproduces nonperturbative QCD phenomena in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma according to lattice QCD data—by including inelastic 2→3 processes with massive gluon radiation, in addition to elastic 2→2 parton scattering. Both elastic and inelastic reactions are evaluated at leading order using DQPM-based effective propagators and vertices, accounting for all channels and their interferences. Based on the obtained matrix elements, we calculate various observables connected to a charm quark. First, we calculate the total cross section of a charm quark with the medium partons as functions of temperature and collision energy. Second, we obtain the drag A coefficient and q^ coefficient of a charm quark as functions of temperature and momentum and also compare our results with those obtained using the Zakharov model for the momentum-dependent strong coupling for the elastic and radiative vertices with a heavy quark, highlighting the importance of the choice of the strong coupling in the determination of transport coefficients. Third, we calculate the spatial diffusion coefficient of a charm quark and compare our results with those obtained using other approaches. Finally, we explore the mass dependence of the diffusion coefficient by comparing the results for charm quark, bottom quark, and infinitely heavy quark. We found that inelastic processes can play a significant role in the determination of the transport coefficients at large transverse momenta, but are strongly suppressed at low transverse momenta.

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Phys. Rev. D 112, 014042– Published 28 July, 2025
  • Received 4 April 2025
  • Accepted 2 July 2025
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