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Heavy flavour Langevin diffusion with the chromo-electromagnetic field fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-02-08 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

The chromo-electromagnetic field is produced due to the motion of partons in a quark-gluon plasma created by relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The fluctuations in the produced chromo-electromagnetic field are important, since they cause heavy quarks to gain energy in the low velocity limit. We study the effect of such fluctuations on heavy quark diffusion in quark-gluon plasma within the framework of Langevin dynamics under the background matter described by the (3+13+1)-dimensional relativistic viscous hydrodynamics. Theoretical calculations of the nuclear modification factor (RAAR_{AA}) of heavy mesons (DD and BB mesons), with the effect of these fluctuations, are compared with experimental measurements in AuAuAu-Au collisions at sNN=200\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200 GeV by the STAR experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and PbPbPb-Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76 and 5.025.02 TeV by the ALICE and CMS experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We find a significant effect of these fluctuations in describing the the measured RAAR_{AA} of DD and BB mesons in both RHIC and LHC energies.

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@article{arxiv.1902.02477,
  title  = {Heavy flavour Langevin diffusion with the chromo-electromagnetic field fluctuations in the quark-gluon plasma},
  author = {Ashik Ikbal Sheikh and Zubayer Ahammed},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.02477},
  year   = {2019}
}