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20152023
most citedTowards the determination of heavy-quark transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma

160 citations · 738 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

hep-ph2023★ 19 cited

Empirical Determination of the Pion Mass Distribution

Yin-Zhen Xu, Khépani Raya, Zhu-Fang Cui +2

Existing pion+nucleus Drell-Yan and electron+pion scattering data are used to develop ensembles of model-independent representations of the pion generalised parton distribution (GP…

nucl-th2020★ 13 cited

Chiral crossover transition from the Dyson-Schwinger equations in a sphere

Yin-Zhen Xu, Chao Shi, Xiao-Tao He +1

Within the framework of Dyson--Schwinger equations of QCD, we study the effect of finite volume on the chiral phase transition in a sphere with the MIT boundary condition. We find…

hep-ph2020

Coupled Transport Equations for Quarkonium Production in Heavy Ion Collisions

Xiaojun Yao, Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu +2

Motivated by recent applications of the open quantum system formalism to understand quarkonium transport in the quark-gluon plasma, we develop a set of coupled Boltzmann equations…

hep-ph2020★ 74 cited

Coupled Boltzmann Transport Equations of Heavy Quarks and Quarkonia in Quark-Gluon Plasma

Xiaojun Yao, Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu +2

We develop a framework of coupled transport equations for open heavy flavor and quarkonium states, in order to describe their transport inside the quark-gluon plasma. Our framework…

hep-ph2020★ 9 cited

Quarkonium Production in Heavy Ion Collisions: From Open Quantum System to Transport Equation

Xiaojun Yao, Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu +3

Using the open quantum system formalism and effective field theory of QCD, we derive the Boltzmann transport equation of quarkonium inside the quark-gluon plasma. Our derivation il…

nucl-th2020★ 13 cited

Traces of non-equilibrium effects, initial condition, bulk dynamics and elementary collisions in the charm observables

Taesoo Song, Pierre Moreau, Yingru Xu +6

We study how heavy quark dynamics is affected by the nature of the bulk evolution of the QCD matter, the initial condition of the system, and the treatment of elementary interactio…

hep-ph2019★ 3 cited

Fate of Heavy Quark Bound States inside Quark-Gluon Plasma

Xiaojun Yao, Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu +3

Transport equations have been applied successfully to describe the quarkonium evolution inside the quark-gluon plasma, which include both plasma screening effects and recombination…

nucl-th2018

Towards an extraction of with an uncertainty controlled energy loss Monte-Carlo

Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu, Steffen A. Bass

Recent progress in open-heavy-flavor measurements and future experimental upgrades are bringing heavy-flavor physics into the precision era, allowing for strong quantitative constr…

hep-ph2018★ 18 cited

Quarkonium production in heavy ion collisions: coupled Boltzmann transport equations

Xiaojun Yao, Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu +2

By coupling the Boltzmann transport equations of both quarkonium and open heavy quarks, we investigate their dynamical evolution inside the quark-gluon plasma and study quarkonium…

nucl-th2018★ 64 cited

Cracking the difference of estimating heavy quark transport coefficients in a Quark-Gluon Plasma

Yingru Xu, Steffen A. Bass, Pierre Moreau +9

Heavy flavor observables provide valuable information on the properties of the hot and dense Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions. Vari…

nucl-th2018★ 61 cited

A modified-Boltzmann approach for modeling the hot QCD medium-induce splitting vertices in the deep LPM region

Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu, Steffen A. Bass

Hard probes produced in perturbative processes are excellent probes for the study of the hot and dense QCD matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Transport theory, al…

nucl-th2018★ 160 cited

Towards the determination of heavy-quark transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma

Shanshan Cao, Gabriele Coci, Santosh Kumar Das +16

Several transport models have been employed in recent years to analyze heavy-flavor meson spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-quark transport coefficients extracted…

nucl-th2018★ 18 cited

Quarkonium production in heavy ion collisions: coupled Boltzmann transport equations

Xiaojun Yao, Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu +2

We develop a set of coupled Boltzmann equations to describe the dynamical evolution of heavy quarks and quarkonia inside the quark-gluon plasma. The quarkonium dissociation and rec…

nucl-th2018★ 119 cited

A linearized Boltzmann--Langevin model for heavy quark transport in hot and dense QCD matter

Weiyao Ke, Yingru Xu, Steffen A. Bass

In relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the production of heavy quarks at large transverse momenta is strongly suppressed compared to proton-proton collisions. In addition an unexpec…

nucl-th2017

Traces of non-equilibrium dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Pierre Moreau, Yingru Xu, Taesoo Song +3

The impact of non-equilibrium effects on the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is investigated by comparing a non-equilibrium transport approach, the Parton-Hadron-String-Dynamics (…

nucl-th2017★ 136 cited

A data-driven analysis for the temperature and momentum dependence of the heavy quark diffusion coefficient in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Yingru Xu, Marlene Nahrgang, Shanshan Cao +2

By applying a Bayesian model-to-data analysis, we estimate the temperature and momentum dependence of the heavy quark diffusion coefficient in an improved Langevin framework. The p…

nucl-th2017★ 11 cited

A data-driven analysis of the heavy quark transport coefficient

Yingru Xu, Marlene Nahrgang, Jonah E. Bernhard +2

Using a Bayesian model-to-data analysis, we estimate the temperature dependence of the heavy quark diffusion coefficients by calibrating to the experimental data of -meson $R_{\…

nucl-th2017★ 15 cited

Traces of non-equilibrium dynamics in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Yingru Xu, Pierre Moreau, Taesoo Song +3

The impact of non-equilibrium effects on the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is investigated by comparing a non-equilibrium transport approach, the Parton-Hadron-String-Dynamics (…

nucl-th2015★ 5 cited

Heavy-flavor dynamics in relativistic p-Pb collisions at TeV

Yingru Xu, Shanshan Cao, Marlene Nahrgang +4

We investigate the heavy flavor dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium created in p-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the (3+1)-dimensional viscous…