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Heavy quark diffusion from the lattice

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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.014508

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We study the diffusion of heavy quarks in the quark gluon plasma using the Langevin equations of motion and estimate the contribution of the transport peak to the Euclidean current-current correlator. We show that the Euclidean correlator is remarkably insensitive to the heavy quark diffusion coefficient and give a physical interpretation of this result using the free streaming Boltzmann equation. However if the diffusion coefficient is smaller than similar to 1/(pi T), as favored by RHIC phenomenology, the transport contribution should be visible in the Euclidean correlator. We outline a procedure to isolate this contribution.

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