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20172026
most citedEffective description of hot QCD medium in strong magnetic field and longitudinal conductivity

67 citations · 594 across the 36 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

hep-th2026

A fluid dual to large membrane paradigm at first subleading order

Supratim Halder, Manu Kurian, Mangesh Mandlik

The large membrane paradigm establishes a duality between the dynamics of black holes and the evolution of a codimension-one timelike membrane in a non-gravitational background…

hep-th2026

A fluid dual to the charged large membrane paradigm

Supratim Halder, Manu Kurian, Mangesh Mandlik

According to the formulation of the charged large membrane paradigm, an arbitrary dynamic black hole solution to a theory of gravity with a gauge field is dual to the dy…

hep-ph2026

Electromagnetic response of a relativistic drifting plasma

Ashes Modak, Anowar Shaikh, Manu Kurian +2

We investigate the charge transport properties of a relativistic drifting plasma using the kinetic theory within the relaxation time approximation. The collective drift induced by…

nucl-th2025

Pre-equilibrium charm quark dynamics and their impact on D-Meson observables

Manu Kurian, Mayank Singh, Charles Gale +2

We study the impact of pre-equilibrium evolution on the charm quark and in Pb+Pb collisions at = 5.02 TeV. We observe that there is significant diffu…

nucl-th2025★ 3 cited

Charm quark evolution in the early stages of heavy-ion collisions

Mayank Singh, Manu Kurian, Björn Schenke +2

Heavy quarks are predominantly generated at the initial stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions such that heavy flavor observables have the potential to provide information on t…

nucl-th2025★ 7 cited

Mean free path of photons in relativistic heavy ion collisions

Jajati K. Nayak, Rupa Chatterjee

Electromagnetic probes, such as photons and dileptons, play a key role in diagnosing the initial temperature of the hot and dense quark-gluon plasma (QGP) matter created in relativ…

hep-ph2025

Quarkonium in a QCD medium with momentum-dependent relaxation time

Sunny Kumar Singh, Samapan Bhadury, Ritesh Ghosh +1

In this study, we explore the properties of quarkonia in a hot QCD medium using a newly proposed collision kernel that consistently incorporates the particle's momentum dependence…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Particle number diffusion in second-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamics with momentum-dependent relaxation time

Sunny Kumar Singh, Samapan Bhadury, Manu Kurian +1

This article explores particle number diffusion in relativistic hydrodynamics using kinetic theory with a modified collision kernel that incorporates the momentum dependence of the…

nucl-th2024

Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter 2024 -- Bulk Properties

Prabhakar Palni, Amal Sarkar, Santosh K. Das +44

The second Hot QCD Matter 2024 conference at IIT Mandi focused on various ongoing topics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, encompassing theoretical and experimental perspectives…

hep-ph2024

Simulating Charm Quarks in IP-Glasma Initial Stage and Quark-Gluon Plasma: A Hybrid Approach for charm quark phenomenology

Charles Gale, Sangyong Jeon, Manu Kurian +2

We present phenomenological findings on charm quark transport while including its energy loss in both pre-equilibrium and hydrodynamic stages of the evolution. We employed the MART…

hep-ph2024★ 12 cited

Revisiting shear stress tensor evolution: Non-resistive magnetohydrodynamics with momentum-dependent relaxation time

Sunny Kumar Singh, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra

This study aims to develop second-order relativistic viscous magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) derived from kinetic theory within an extended relaxation time approximation (momentum/energ…

hep-ph2023

Heavy flavor transport and observables in heavy-ion collisions within the MARTINI+MUSIC framework

Manu Kurian, Mayank Singh, Sangyong Jeon +1

We study the transport dynamics of charm quarks within an expanding quark-gluon plasma for Pb+Pb collisions at 2.76 TeV. The analysis incorporates the hydrodynamical approach-MUSIC…

hep-ph2023★ 13 cited

Energy loss of a fast moving parton in Gribov-Zwanziger plasma

Manas Debnath, Ritesh Ghosh, Mohammad Yousuf Jamal +2

The Gribov-Zwanziger prescription applied within Yang-Mills theory is demonstrated to be an efficient method for refining the theory's infrared dynamics. We study the collisional e…

hep-ph2023★ 12 cited

Impact of chiral asymmetry and magnetic field on passage of an energetic test parton in a QCD medium

Ritesh Ghosh, Mohammad Yousuf Jamal, Manu Kurian

We study the dependence of collisional energy loss of a test parton moving with a high velocity on the chiral imbalance and magnetic field in the QCD medium. A semi-classical appro…

nucl-th2023★ 24 cited

Open charm phenomenology with a multi-stage approach to relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Mayank Singh, Manu Kurian, Sangyong Jeon +1

We study open charm flavor observables in Pb+Pb collision at TeV within the MARTINI framework. The space-time expansion of the quark-gluon plasma is described…

hep-ph2022★ 12 cited

Magnetic field-dependent electric charge transport in hadronic medium at finite temperature

Ritesh Ghosh, Manu Kurian

Electric charge transport of hadronic matter at finite temperature and magnetic field is studied within the linear sigma model. Anisotropic transport coefficients associated with t…

nucl-th2022★ 32 cited

Dynamics of Hot QCD Matter -- Current Status and Developments

Santosh K. Das, Prabhakar Palni, Jhuma Sannigrahi +64

The discovery and characterization of hot and dense QCD matter, known as Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP), remains the most international collaborative effort and synergy between theorists…

hep-ph2022★ 19 cited

Thermal and thermoelectric responses of hot QCD medium in time-varying magnetic fields

Gowthama K K, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra

The thermal response of the hot QCD matter has been studied in the presence of a time-varying magnetic field. The impact of magnetic field, its time dependence, and the collision a…

hep-ph2021★ 18 cited

Dragging heavy quark in an anisotropic QCD medium beyond the static limit

Avdhesh Kumar, Manu Kurian, Santosh K. Das +1

Heavy quark dynamics in an anisotropic QCD medium have been analyzed within the Fokker-Planck approach. Heavy quark drag force and momentum diffusion tensor have been decomposed by…

hep-ph2021★ 16 cited

Electromagnetic response of hot QCD medium in the presence of background time-varying fields

Gowthama K K, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra

The response of the hot QCD medium in the presence of external time dependent electromagnetic fields has been studied within the relativistic Boltzmann transport theory. The impact…

hep-ph2021★ 22 cited

Heavy quark transport coefficients in a viscous QCD medium with collisional and radiative processes

Adiba Shaikh, Manu Kurian, Santosh K. Das +3

The heavy quark drag and momentum diffusion coefficients in the presence of both the collisional and radiative processes have been studied in a hot viscous QCD medium. The thermal…

hep-ph2021★ 28 cited

Heavy quark transport in an anisotropic hot QCD medium: Collisional and Radiative processes

Jai Prakash, Manu Kurian, Santosh K. Das +1

The impact of momentum anisotropy on the heavy quark transport coefficients due to collisional and radiative processes in the QCD medium has been studied within the ambit of kineti…

hep-ph2021★ 19 cited

Thermoelectric behaviour of hot collisional and magnetized QCD medium from an effective kinetic theory

Manu Kurian

The thermoelectric behaviour of quark-gluon plasma has been studied within the framework of an effective kinetic theory by adopting a quasiparticle model to incorporate the thermal…

hep-ph2020★ 15 cited

Response of a weakly magnetized hot QCD medium to inhomogeneous electric field

Gowthama K K, Manu Kurian, Vinod Chandra

The electric charge transport in a weakly magnetized hot QCD medium has been investigated in the presence of an external inhomogeneous electric field. The current densities (electr…