{
  "id": "2402.18004",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2024-02-28T02:36:15.000Z",
  "updated": "2024-02-28T02:36:15.000Z",
  "title": "The collisional energy loss of a heavy-quark in a semi-quark-gluon plasma",
  "authors": [
    "Qianqian Du",
    "Mudong Du",
    "Yun Guo"
  ],
  "comment": "17 pages and 7 figures",
  "categories": [
    "hep-ph",
    "nucl-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "By utilizing a background field effective theory, we compute the collisional energy loss of a heavy-quark moving through a semi-quark-gluon plasma characterized by nontrivial holonomy for Polyakov loops. We consider the elastic scatterings between the incident heavy-quark and the thermal partons with both hard and soft momentum transfers. Our results show that the heavy-quark energy loss is significantly suppressed in the semi-quark-gluon plasma due to a background field that is self-consistently generated in the effective theory. On the other hand, the suppression strongly depends on the temperature of the plasma which becomes negligible above 2~3 times the critical temperature. For a realistic coupling constant, ignoring a relatively weak dependence on the heavy-quark velocity, the suppression on the collisional energy loss can be approximated by an overall factor determined solely by the background field.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2024-02-28T02:36:15.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "collisional energy loss",
      "semi-quark-gluon plasma",
      "background field effective theory",
      "heavy-quark energy loss",
      "soft momentum transfers"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 17,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}