Heavy quark thermalization in classical lattice gauge theory: Lessons for strongly-coupled QCD

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Laine, Mikko ^a   Moore, Guy D ^a,b   Philipsen, Owe ^c   Tassler, Marcus ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649562605     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/05/014     Document Type: Article

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