Spin relaxation rate for heavy quarks in weakly coupled QCD plasma

Masaru Hongo (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA; RIKEN iTHEMS, RIKEN, Wako, 351-0198, Japan; Department of Physics, Niigata University, Niigata, 950-2181, Japan) ; Xu-Guang Huang (Physics Department and Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China; Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Ion-beam Application (MOE), Fudan University, Shanghai, 200433, China) ; Matthias Kaminski (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Alabama, 514 University Boulevard, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487, USA) ; Mikhail Stephanov (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA) ; Ho-Ung Yee (Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA)

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 than the relaxation rate of other non- hydrodynamic modes by additional powers of T/M. We demonstrate three different methods to evaluate the spin relaxation rate: 1) the Green-Kubo formula in the spin hydrodynamic regime, 2) the spin density correlation function in the strict hydrodynamic limit, and 3) quantum kinetic theory of the spin distribution function in momentum space. We highlight the interesting differences between these methods, while they are ultimately connected to each other by the underlying Ward-Takahashi identity for the non-conserved spin density.

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Published on:
26 August 2022
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Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2022 (2022)
Issue 8
Pages 1-33
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2022)263
arXiv:
2201.12390
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CC-BY-4.0

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