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Open heavy-flavor transport and hadronization in heavy-ion collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-10-13 v1

Abstract

We develop a comprehensive model for heavy-quark evolution in a realistic QGP, from their production in the initial collision to hadronic freeze-out. Heavy-quark transport is described by a Langevin approach including medium-induced radiation, coupled to a 2+1D viscous hydrodynamic bulk evolution. Transport coefficients are obtained from non-perturbative TT-matrix calculations with resonant correlations near the transition temperature. Hadronization is implemented via two fragmentation+recombination schemes: an improved sudden coalescence model and a resonance recombination model. We present results for key open heavy-flavor observables, i.e., the nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow, and compare to LHC Pb-Pb data at s\NN\sqrt{s_{\NN}}=5.02\,TeV.}

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@article{arxiv.2510.08923,
  title  = {Open heavy-flavor transport and hadronization in heavy-ion collisions},
  author = {Yu Fu and Tharun Krishna and Weiyao Ke and Steffen A. Bass and Ralf Rapp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.08923},
  year   = {2025}
}

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