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Heavy-flavour in relativistic nuclear collisions: recent developments

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2020-02-21 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Transport calculations represent the major tool to simulate the modifications induced by the presence of a hot-deconfined medium on the production of heavy-flavour particles in high-energy nuclear collisions. After a brief description of the approach and of the major achievements in its phenomenological applications we discuss some recent developments. In particular we focus on observables arising from event-by-event fluctuations in the distribution of deposited energy (odd flow harmonics, event-shape-engineering) and from the tilting of the initial geometry with respect to the beam axis (directed flow), with a possible role played by the strong magnetic field generated by the spectator nucleons.

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@article{arxiv.2002.08763,
  title  = {Heavy-flavour in relativistic nuclear collisions: recent developments},
  author = {Andrea Beraudo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.08763},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

6 pages, proceedings of the "LFC19: Strong dynamics for physics within and beyond the Standard Model at LHC and Future Colliders" workshop. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1910.03886

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