Heavy-flavor dynamics in relativistic p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV
Abstract
We investigate the heavy flavor dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium created in p-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamics model describing QGP medium, the dynamics of heavy quarks are studied in an improved Langevin framework incorporating both collisional and radiative energy loss. The hadronization of the heavy quarks is given by a hybrid model of fragmentation and recombination. We find that the in-medium evolution of charm quarks raises the D-meson at low transverse momenta while it suppresses the D-meson at intermediate momenta. In addition, the elliptic flow of D-meson is calculated. For a diffusion coefficient which reproduces central data at the LHC, we find a much smaller D-meson compared to the light hadrons. This observation indicates an incomplete coupling between heavy quarks with the medium, due to the reduced medium size compared to AA collisions.
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@article{arxiv.1510.07520,
title = {Heavy-flavor dynamics in relativistic p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV},
author = {Yingru Xu and Shanshan Cao and Marlene Nahrgang and Weiyao Ke and Guang-You Qin and Jussi Auvinen and Steffen A. Bass},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.07520},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings for the Hard Probes 2015 conference