Online HF Seminar Series - 2025

1 Oct 2025, 08:00 → 31 Dec 2025, 20:00 US/Eastern

The online seminar series on “Heavy Flavor Probes of QCD Matter” covers various aspects of hot and cold QCD with a focus on heavy flavor probes.  This online seminar series is scheduled on every other Wednesday at  9:00am US Eastern Time. 

The seminar series is initiated by HEFTY Collaboration, a DOE funded theoretical collaboration in nuclear physics.

Organizers:  Xin Dong ([email protected]), Peter Petreczky ([email protected]), Ralf Rapp ([email protected]), Ramona Vogt ([email protected])

Wednesday 8 October

09:00 → 10:00 HEavy-Flavor TheorY for QCD Matter

The HEFTY collaboration has been created to describe, in a comprehensive way, the production, transport and hadronization of heavy-flavor particles in heavy-ion collisions, by bringing together state-of-the-art expertise on the various components needed to achieve that. In this talk we give a brief overview of the goals of this theory collaboration and present selected highlights of the activities thus far. We start from the implementation of recent constraints from lattice QCD into quantum many-body theory to evaluate quarkonium spectral functions, a determination of their poles through an analysis in the complex energy plane, as well as results for the closely related heavy-quark and -quarkonium transport coefficients in the strongly coupled QGP. We also discuss implementations into transport models for heavy-ion collisions, with first comparisons to experimental data from the LHC.

Speaker: Ralf Rapp (Texas A&M University)

Wednesday 29 October

09:00 → 10:00 Heavy Quark Diffusion Coefficient from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Jorge Dasilva (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Wednesday 12 November

09:00 → 10:00 Heavy Flavors: from RHIC to EIC

Speaker: Rongrong Ma (BNL)

Wednesday 26 November

09:00 → 10:00 TBD

Wednesday 10 December

09:00 → 10:00 Overview of Experimental Results on Heavy Flavor Probes from LHC

Speaker: Yen-Jie Lee (MIT)