Charm quark energy loss in QCD matter

2005/01/31 by W. C. Xiang, Heng-Tong Ding, H. T. Ding +4
Physics and Astronomy · #Bottom quark #Charm (quantum number) #Charm quark #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Down quark #Gluon #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Physics #QCD matter #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #Radiant energy #Radiation #Radiative transfer #Top quark #Up quark #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epja/i2005-10065-7

published as Eur.Phys.J. A25 (2005) 75-78 · 4 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in European Physical Journal A

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Abstract

The energy loss of heavy quarks in a quark-gluon plasma of finite size is studied within the light-cone integral approach. A simple analytical formulation of the radiative energy loss of heavy quarks is derived. This provides a convenient way to quantitatively estimate the quark energy loss. Our results show that if the energy of a heavy quark is much larger than its mass, the radiative energy loss approaches the radiative energy loss of light quarks.

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