Reply to Comment on the paper ``Energy Loss of Charm Quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma: Collisional vs Radiative'' by Mishra et al

TL;DR

This paper defends the validity of previous calculations on charm quark energy loss in quark-gluon plasma, clarifying that comments on light quarks are not applicable to heavy quarks and reaffirming the consistency of the original methods.

Contribution

It clarifies the relevance of previous critiques and confirms the validity of the classical approximation used for heavy quark energy loss calculations.

Findings

Comments on light quarks are not applicable to heavy quarks

The concept used in Ref.[2] aligns with classical transport coefficients

The original methods remain valid for charm quark energy loss

Abstract

The comments raised in Ref. [1] by Mishra et al aim at two papers contained in Ref. [2]. We show that those comments on Ref. [2] pointed out by Mishra et al in Ref.[1] are not relevant and the concept used in Ref.[2] is consistent and in compliance with the classical approximation of the transport coefficients [3]. We would also like to note that most of the comments in Ref. [1] were meant for light quarks, but are not even appropriate for heavy quarks.