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Heavy quarks and the collective properties of hot QCD
Giorgio Torrieri, Jorge Noronha
After reviewing the evidence that QCD matter at ultrarelativistic energies behaves as a very good fluid, we describe the connection of QCD fluidity to heavy quark observables. We r…
Non-conformal Holography of Heavy Quark Quenching
Andrej Ficnar, Jorge Noronha, Miklos Gyulassy
We develop a holographic (bottom-up) gravity model for QCD to understand the connection between the peak in the trace anomaly and the magnitude of heavy quark energy loss in a stro…
Conformal Holography of Bulk Elliptic Flow and Heavy Quark Quenching in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions
Jorge Noronha, Miklos Gyulassy, Giorgio Torrieri
We show that the ``perfect fluid'' elliptic flow of the bulk hadrons and the unexpectedly strong quenching of heavy quark jet fragments in Au+Au reactions at 200 AGeV can be simult…
Flavoring the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Charm
Giorgio Torrieri, Jorge Noronha
We demonstrate that a Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) with a dilute admixture of heavy quarks has, in general, a lower speed of sound than a "pure" QGP without effects from heavy flavors.…
Universal Flow-Driven Conical Emission in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Barbara Betz, Jorge Noronha, Giorgio Torrieri +2
The double-peak structure observed in soft-hard hadron correlations is commonly interpreted as a signature for a Mach cone generated by a supersonic jet interacting with the hot an…
The Heavy Quark Free Energy in QCD and in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals
Jorge Noronha
We show that the Polyakov loop approaches its asymptotic value at high temperatures {\it from below} in any strongly-coupled gauge theory at large with a dual supergravity de…