Heavy flavours in heavy-ion collisions: quenching, flow and correlations
Abstract
We present results for the quenching, elliptic flow and azimuthal correlations of heavy flavour particles in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions obtained through the POWLANG transport setup, developed in the past to study the propagation of heavy quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma and here extended to include a modeling of their hadronization in the presence of a medium. Hadronization is described as occurring via the fragmentation of strings with endpoints given by the heavy (anti-)quark Q(Qbar) and a thermal parton qbar(q) from the medium. The flow of the light quarks is shown to affect significantly the R_AA and v_2 of the final D mesons, leading to a better agreement with the experimental data. The approach allows also predictions for the angular correlation between heavy-flavour hadrons (or their decay electrons) and the charged particles produced in the fragmentation of the heavy-quark strings.
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@article{arxiv.1410.6082,
title = {Heavy flavours in heavy-ion collisions: quenching, flow and correlations},
author = {A. Beraudo and A. De Pace and M. Monteno and M. Nardi and F. Prino},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6082},
year = {2015}
}