Charm diffusion in a pion gas implementing unitarity, chiral and heavy quark symmetries.
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 th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/43928 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43928 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 53 Diffusion Coefficient Charmed Mesons Heavy Ion Collisions Chiral Perturbation Theory Heavy Quark Effective Theory Física (Física) 22 Física |
| Sumario: | 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(2)-independent at a fixed temperature which simplifies phenomenological analysis. At the higher end of reliability of our calculation, T similar or equal to 150 MeV, we report a charm relaxation length lambda(c) similar or equal to 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. |
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