[RIKEN Lunch Seminar] Quarkonium production in heavy ion collisions: open quantum system, effective field theory and transport equations

by Xiaojun Yao (Duke University)

Thursday 24 Jan 2019, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

1-224 (Bldg. 510)

In this talk, I will present a connection between two approaches of studying quarkonium dynamics inside quark-gluon plasma: the open quantum system formalism and the transport equation. I will discuss insights from the perspective of quantum information. I will show that under the weak coupling and Markovian approximations, the Lindblad equation turns to a Boltzmann transport equation after a Wigner transform is applied to the system density matrix. I will demonstrate how the separation of physical scales justifies the approximations, by using effective field theory of QCD. Finally, I will show some phenomenological results based on the derived transport equation.