Heavy Quarks Embedded in Glasma

Abstract

Heavy quarks, which are produced at the earliest stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, probe the entire history of the quark-gluon plasma that is created in the collision. Initially the plasma is populated with chromodynamic fields which can be treated as classical. We study the transport of heavy quarks across such a system, which is called glasma, using a Fokker-Planck equation where the quarks interact with long wavelength chromodynamic fields. We compute field correlators which are used to calculate the collision terms of the transport equation. Finally, the energy loss and momentum broadening of heavy quarks in the glasma are studied. Both of these quantities are sizable and strongly directionally dependent.

arXiv comment8 pages, 4 figures, Nuclear Physics A in print

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