MLL-Kolloquium: Dr. Viljami Leino (Physik Department T30f, TUM): Heavy Quark Diffusion from Lattice-QCD Simulations

Thursday 6 Feb 2020, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Lecture hall (ground floor, west) (LMU building, Am Coulombwall 1, Garching)

The extreme state of matter produced in heavy-ion collisions at ultrarelativistic colliders can be characterized as a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma. Within this plasma, the heavy quarks can be seen to behave according to Langevin dynamics, with a diffusion coefficient related to their momentum distibution. In this talk I will review the theoretical setting and present a lattice-QCD determination of the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient over a wide range of temperatures.

kolloquium-06-02-20.pdf