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Fluid dynamics of charm quarks from heavy to light-ion collisions

Nuclear Theory 2025-09-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Heavy quarks are powerful tools to characterize the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic nuclear collisions. By exploiting a mapping between transport theory and hydrodynamics, we developed a fluid-dynamic description of heavy-quark diffusion in the QCD plasma. We present results for the transverse momentum distributions of charm hadrons and evolution of charm density and diffusion fields obtained using a fluid-dynamic code coupled with the conservation of a heavy-quark current in the QGP in various collision systems.

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@article{arxiv.2508.21600,
  title  = {Fluid dynamics of charm quarks from heavy to light-ion collisions},
  author = {Federica Capellino and Andrea Dubla and Rossana Facen and Stefan Floerchinger and Eduardo Grossi and Andreas Kirchner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.21600},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Proceedings for Quark Matter 2025