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Heavy-Quark Diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

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arxiv 2204.09299 v1 pith:XJV3VNM3 submitted 2022-04-20 hep-ph nucl-th

Heavy-Quark Diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

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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 properties. In addition, the experimentally observed heavy-flavor hadrons carry valuable information about the hadronization process of the transported quarks. Here we review recent progress in the theoretical developments of heavy-quark interactions in the QGP and how they relate to the nonperturbative hadronization process, and discuss the recent status of the pertinent phenomenology in heavy-ion collisions at the RHIC and the LHC. The interactions of heavy quarks in the QGP also constitute a central building block in the description of the heavy quarkonia which controls their transport parameters as well. We will thus focus on theoretical approaches that aim for a unified description of open and hidden heavy-flavor particles in medium, and discuss how they can be constrained by lattice QCD "data" and utilized to deduce fundamental properties of the microscopic interactions and emerging spectral properties of the strongly coupled QGP.

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