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 and in Pb+Pb collisions at = 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