Heavy Quarks Embedded in Glasma

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Heavy quarks, which are produced at the earliest stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions, probe the entire history of the quark-gluon plasma that is created in the collision.

• Initially the plasma is populated with chromodynamic fields which can be treated as classical.
• We study the transport of heavy quarks across such a system, which is called glasma, using a Fokker-Planck equation where the quarks interact with long wavelength chromodynamic fields.
• We compute field correlators which are used to calculate the collision terms of the transport equation.