1211.2418 (Debasish Banerjee et al.)

An estimate of heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient in gluon
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Debasish Banerjee, Saumen Datta, Rajiv V. Gavai, Pushan Majumdar

We calculate the momentum diffusion coefficient for heavy quarks in SU(3) gluon plasma at temperatures 1-2 times the deconfinement temperature. The momentum diffusion coefficient is extracted from a Monte Carlo calculation of the correlation function of color electric fields, in the leading order of expansion in heavy quark mass. Systematics of the calculation are examined, and compared with perturbtion theory and other estimates.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2418