https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-023-12105-6
Regular Article – Theoretical Physics
Viscous QCD medium effects on the bottom quark transport coefficients
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, 400076, Mumbai, India
Received:
26
February
2023
Accepted:
4
October
2023
Published online:
24
October
2023
The bottom quark transport coefficients, i.e., drag and diffusion coefficients, have been studied for the collisional and soft gluon radiative processes within the viscous QCD medium. The thermal medium effects are incorporated using the effective fugacity quasiparticle model (EQPM). Both the shear and bulk viscous effects at leading order are embedded through the near-equilibrium distribution functions of the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) constituent quasiparticles. The transport coefficients’ dependence on the bottom quark’s initial momentum and QGP temperature have been investigated. The relative dominance of the radiative over the collisional process for the bottom quark seems to occur at a higher initial momentum compared to that of the charm quark. In contrast, the effect of the viscous corrections seems to be more for the charm quark. Furthermore, we also investigate the validity of the Einstein fluctuation–dissipation theorem for our analysis.
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