A way to estimate the heavy quark thermalization rate from the lattice

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Caron Huot, Simon ^a   Laine, Mikko ^b   Moore, Guy D ^a,b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heavy quark physics; Lattice gauge field theories; Thermal field theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649515618     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/04/053     Document Type: Article

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