Charm diffusion in a pion gas implementing unitarity, chiral and heavy quark symmetries

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.06.006zbMATH Open1228.81265arXiv1104.3815OpenAlexW1992982897MaRDI QIDQ643670FDOQ643670

Authors: L. M. Abreu, Daniel Cabrera, Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada, Juan M. Torres-Rincon 

Publication date: 2 November 2011

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the charm drag and diffusion coefficients in a hot pion gas, such as is formed in a Heavy Ion Collision after the system cools sufficiently to transit into the hadron phase. We fully exploit Heavy Quark Effective Theory (with both D and D* mesons as elementary degrees of freedom during the collision) and Chiral Perturbation Theory, and employ standard unitarization to reach higher temperatures. We find that a certain friction and shear diffusion coefficients are almost p-independent at fixed temperature which simplifies phenomenological analysis. At the higher end of reliability of our calculation, T about 150 MeV, we report a charm relaxation length of some 40 fm, in agreement with the model estimate of He, Fries and Rapp. The momentum of a 1-GeV charm quark decreases about 50 MeV per Fermi when crossing the hadron phase.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3815

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zbMATH Keywords

diffusion coefficientchiral perturbation theoryheavy quark effective theorycharmed mesonsheavy ion collisions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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