Seminar in Hadronic Physics

Heavy quarks embedded in glasma

Alina Czajka

National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw

Heavy quarks, which are produced at the earliest stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, probe the entire history of the quark-gluon plasma that is created in the collision. Initially the plasma is populated with chromodynamic fields which can be treated as classical. In this talk the transport of heavy quarks interacting with such long-wavelength chromodynamic fields will be discussed. The method how to obtain the transport equation and how field correlators enter it will be shown. Then, the energy loss and momentum broadening of heavy quarks traversing the glasma will be presented.