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Impacts of EMC effects on the D meson modification factor in equilibrating QGP

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-07-14 v5 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

In this article we employ the nuclear EMC effect to extract the parton distribution functions (PDFs) inside the Lead (Pb) and Gold (Au) nuclei. Extracted PDFs are utilized to obtain the transverse momentum dependent (TMD) ones, using the computing codes like Pythia 8 or MCFM-10. Through this procedure TMDPDFs for charm and bottom quarks in Au at sNN=200  GeV\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200\;GeV, Pb at sNN=2.76  TeV\sqrt{s_{NN}}=2.76\;TeV and sNN=5.02  TeV\sqrt{s_{NN}}=5.02\;TeV are calculated. To evaluate the validity of results and investigate the influence of nuclear EMC effect, the numerated TMDs are used as input to estimate heavy quark modification factor RAAR_{AA} at transverse plane PTP_T. This observable is calculated through numerical solution of the Fokker-Planck equation. For this purpose we need to extract the drag and diffusion coefficients, using the hard thermal loop correction. It is done in the frame work of the relativistic hydrodynamics up to the third order approximation of gradient expansion. The results are compared with same solutions when the input PFDs are considered inside the unbounded protons where the nuclear effect is not included. The comparison indicates a significant improvement of computed RAAR_{AA} with available experimental data when the EMC effect is considered.

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@article{arxiv.2109.05597,
  title  = {Impacts of EMC effects on the D meson modification factor in equilibrating QGP},
  author = {A. Mirjalili and J. Sheibani and K. Javidan and R. Gharaei and Shahin Atashbar Tehrani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.05597},
  year   = {2022}
}

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16 pages 6 figures 1 tables