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Langevin dynamics of heavy quarks in a soft-hard factorized approach

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-24 v1 Nuclear Theory

Abstract

By utilizing a soft-hard factorized model, which combines a thermal perturbative description of soft scatterings and a perturbative QCD-based calculation for hard collisions, we study the energy and temperature dependence of the heavy quark diffusion coefficients in Langevin dynamics. The adjustable parameters are fixed from the comprehensive model-data comparison. We find that a small value of the spatial diffusion coefficient at transition temperature is preferred by data 2πTDs(Tc)62\pi TD_{s}(T_{c}) \simeq 6. With the parameter-optimized model, we are able to describe simultaneously the prompt D0D^{0} RAAR_{\rm AA} and v2v_{2} data at pT8p_{\rm T}\le8 GeV in Pb--Pb collisions at sNN=2.76\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76 and sNN=5.02\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02 TeV. We also make predictions for non-prompt D0D^{0} meson for future experimental tests down to the low momentum region.

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@article{arxiv.2106.08491,
  title  = {Langevin dynamics of heavy quarks in a soft-hard factorized approach},
  author = {Shuang Li and Fei Sun and Wei Xie and Wei Xiong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.08491},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages, 10 figures