A T-Matrix Approach to Heavy Quark Interaction with Thermal Gluons in a Quark Gluon Plasma

The interactions of heavy quarks within the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) are interpreted utilizing an elastic, thermodynamic, 2-body T-matrix in order to calculate drag coefficients of heavy-quark systems derived from a Fokker-Planck equation. A spacelike momentum constraint is employed and produces an...

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Main Author: Huggins, Kyle
Other Authors: Rapp, Ralf
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-08-11853