B-meson Nuclear Modification Factor and $\mathbf{v_2(p_T)}$ in a Strongly Coupled Plasma in $\mathbf{Pb+Pb}$ Collisions at $\mathbf{\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76}$ TeV and $\mathbf{\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.5}$ TeV
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-11-17 v1
Abstract
We present predictions for the suppression of B-mesons using AdS/CFT techniques assuming a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma at TeV for central collisions and TeV for various centrality classes. We provide estimates of the systematic theoretical uncertainties due to 1) the mapping of QCD parameters to those in SYM and 2) the exact form of the momentum dependence of the diffusion coefficient predicted by AdS/CFT. We show that coupling energy loss to flow increases substantially out to surprisingly large momenta, on the order of GeV/c, thus pointing to a possible resolution of the and puzzle for light hadrons.
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@article{arxiv.2011.07617,
title = {B-meson Nuclear Modification Factor and $\mathbf{v_2(p_T)}$ in a Strongly Coupled Plasma in $\mathbf{Pb+Pb}$ Collisions at $\mathbf{\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76}$ TeV and $\mathbf{\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.5}$ TeV},
author = {B. A. Ngwenya and W. A. Horowitz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.07617},
year = {2020}
}
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11 pages, 14 figures