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Toward a simultaneous description of $R_{AA}$ and $v_2$ for heavy quarks

Nuclear Theory 2016-01-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The two key observables related to heavy quarks that have been measured in RHIC and LHC energies are the nuclear suppression factor RAAR_{AA} and the elliptic flow v2v_2. Simultaneous description of these two observables is a top challenge for all the existing models. We have highlighted how a consistent combination of four ingredients i.e the temperature dependence of the energy loss, full solution of the Boltzmann collision integral for the momentum evolution of heavy quark, hadronization by coalescence, then the hadronic rescattering, responsible to address a large part of such a puzzle. We have considered four different models to evaluate the temperature dependence of drag coefficients of the heavy quark in QGP. All these four different models are set to reproduce the same RAAR_{AA} as of the experiments. We have shown that for the same RAAR_{AA}, the v2v_2 could be quite different depending on the interaction dynamics as well as other ingredients.

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@article{arxiv.1509.06307,
  title  = {Toward a simultaneous description of $R_{AA}$ and $v_2$ for heavy quarks},
  author = {Santosh K. Das and Francesco Scardina and Salvatore Plumari and Vincenzo Greco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.06307},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

4 pages, To appear in the proceedings of SQM-2015