Speaker
Prof.
Ralf Rapp
(Texas A&M University)
Description
We discuss how heavy-flavor particles can be utilized to probe hot and dense QCD matter as produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Toward this end, we introduce a thermodynamic T-matrix formalism to describe the in-medium properties of both open- and hidden-flavor particles. We report on recent progress on extracting a suitable in-medium potential from the in-medium heavy-quark free energy as computed in lattice QCD. We finally highlight some applications of the T-matrix interactions to heavy-ion phenomenology, utilizing a Brownian motion approach for open-heavy flavor transport and a kinetic approach to quarkonium dissociation and regeneration.
Primary author
Prof.
Ralf Rapp
(Texas A&M University)
