Speaker
Harshit Pandey
(IMSc)
Description
One of the outstanding problems in thermal QCD is to understand how and whether the heavy quarks produced in the early stages thermalize in the medium formed in a heavy-ion collision (HIC). Recent sets of experimental data point to the fact that charm quarks show the same collectivity as light quarks. In this study, we perform classical-statistical lattice simulations for relativistic charm (representing a Dirac particle), to compute the momentum broadening and real-time spectral functions of heavy quarks in the presence of strongly populated gauge fields, as they exist in the early non-equilibrium stage of HICs.
Primary authors
Harshit Pandey
(IMSc)
Dr
Sören Schlichting
(Bielefeld University)
Sayantan Sharma
