Dressed spectral densities for heavy quark diffusion in holographic plasmas

Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Kiritsis, Elias ^a,b   Mazzanti, Liuba ^c   Nitti, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

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EID: 84859795579     PISSN: 09543899     EISSN: 13616471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/39/5/054003     Document Type: Article

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