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Pre-equilibrium charm quark dynamics and their impact on D-Meson observables

Nuclear Theory 2025-10-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study the impact of pre-equilibrium evolution on the charm quark RAAR_{AA} and v2v_2 in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02 TeV. We observe that there is significant diffusion in the pre-equilibrium evolution, but there is no measurable effect on the final state observables.

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@article{arxiv.2509.25806,
  title  = {Pre-equilibrium charm quark dynamics and their impact on D-Meson observables},
  author = {Manu Kurian and Mayank Singh and Charles Gale and Sangyong Jeon and Björn Schenke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.25806},
  year   = {2025}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, proceedings for Quark Matter 2025 conference