Spatial diffusion of heavy quarks in background magnetic field

TL;DR

This paper extends the study of heavy quark and meson diffusion coefficients to include finite magnetic fields, revealing anisotropic and quantum effects that could impact phenomenological observations in heavy-ion physics.

Contribution

It introduces a finite magnetic field extension of heavy quark and meson diffusion coefficients within a kinetic theory framework, highlighting anisotropic and quantum diffusion effects.

Findings

Diffusion coefficients exhibit anisotropic behavior in magnetic fields.

Quantum effects influence the diffusion process under magnetic fields.

Framework allows for potential phenomenological signatures in heavy-ion collisions.

Abstract

The ratio of shear viscosity to entropy density shows a valley-shaped pattern well-known in the community of heavy-ion physics. Diffusion coefficients of heavy quark and meson shows the similar structure, and both sketches have become quite popular in the community. Present work has attempted a finite magnetic field extension of the diffusion coefficients of heavy quark and meson. Using Einstein's diffusion relation, we calculated heavy quark and heavy meson diffusion by the ratio of conductivity to susceptibility in the kinetic theory framework of relaxation time approximation. The relaxation time of heavy quark and meson are tuned from the knowledge of earlier works on spatial diffusion estimations, and then we have extended the framework for a finite magnetic field, where our outcomes have revealed two aspects - anisotropic and quantum aspects of diffusion with future possibilities of phenomenological signature.