A T-matrix calculation for in-medium heavy-quark gluon scattering

作者：Huggins K^*; Rapp R

来源：Nuclear Physics A, 2012, 896: 24-45.

DOI：10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2012.09.008

• T-matrix
• Heavy-quark diffusion
• Quark-gluon plasma

The interactions of charm and bottom quarks in a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) are evaluated using a thermodynamic 2-body T-matrix. We specifically focus on heavy-quark (HQ) interactions with thermal gluons with an input potential motivated by lattice-QCD computations of the HQ free energy. The latter is implemented into a field-theoretic ansatz for color-Coulomb and (remnants of) confining interactions. This, in particular, enables to discuss corrections to the potential approach, specifically hard-thermal-loop corrections to the vertices, relativistic corrections deduced from pertinent Feynman diagrams, and a suitable projection on transverse thermal gluons. The resulting potentials are applied to compute scattering amplitudes in different color channels and utilized for a calculation of the corresponding HQ drag coefficient in the QGP. A factor of similar to 2-3 enhancement over perturbative results is obtained, mainly driven by the resummation in the attractive color-channels.

• 出版日期2012-12-17