3 papers
hep-ph2026
Short-Range Correlations Between Partons in a Proton
Jen-Chieh Peng, Krishna Rajagopal, John Terry
A principal lesson from recreating droplets of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in heavy ion collisions is that it is a strongly coupled liquid, not a plasma of partons. The energy density…
hep-ph2026
Stochastic Dynamics of Heavy Quarks in Strongly Coupled Plasma
Krishna Rajagopal, Bruno Scheihing-Hitschfeld, Urs Achim Wiedemann
We study the stochastic dynamics of heavy quarks propagating through the strongly coupled plasma of supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory at nonzero temperature in…
hep-ph2026
Looking at the Entropy in a Proton through a QGP Lens
Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Krishna Rajagopal
We investigate the interplay between the thermodynamic (Gibbs) entropy of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and the quantum entanglement entropy characteristic of confined hadronic states a…