Spin relaxation rate for heavy quarks in weakly coupled QCD plasma

Abstract We compute the relaxation rate of the spin density of heavy quarks in a perturbative QCD plasma to leading-log order in the coupling constant g. The spin relaxation rate Γ s in spin hydrodynamics is shown to be Γ s ~ g 4 log(1/g)T(T/M)2 in the heavy-quark limit T/M ≪ 1, which is smaller tha...

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Main Authors: Masaru Hongo, Xu-Guang Huang, Matthias Kaminski, Mikhail Stephanov, Ho-Ung Yee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2022-08-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2022)263