209 Appendix D: Formation Time and Brick Estimates calculation (not just the leading order terms) for charm and bottom quarks are shown in Fig. D.3. The momentum dependence is very similar to Fig. 5.2. The normalization was made similar by a posteriori setting the Bjorken expanding brick to the abbreviated length L = 3 fm. Figure D.3: R$_{AA}$ ( p$_{T}$ ) for charm and bottom quarks created uniformly along a Bjorken expanding brick of SYM plasma of length L = 3 fm as given by the full analytic solution to Eq. (D.31) with D = 3 / 2 πT . The magnitude and momentum dependence are similar to the results of the full numerical simulation with Bjorken expansion and realistic medium geometry shown in Fig. 5.2.