Heavy quark kinetic equilibration from the lattice

by Mikko Laine (Universität Bern)

Monday 20 Mar 2023, 14:30 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

Room 5017 (Building U2 - Quantum)

After summarizing basic motivations for considering how fast heavy quarks moving in a thermal medium can reach kinetic equilibrium, we discuss recent ideas for estimating the corresponding rate from lattice QCD. In particular, corrections suppressed by O(T/M), relevant for charm quarks and originating from the magnetic part of a coloured Lorentz force, have been explored for the first time.