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The drag and diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks (HQs) have been evaluated in the pre-equilibrium phase of the evolving fireball produced in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. The KLN and classical Yang-Mills spectra have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-08-05 Santosh K. Das , Marco Ruggieri , Surasree Mazumder , Vincenzo Greco , Jan-e Alam

We calculate the heavy quark evolution in heavy ion collisions and show results for the elliptic flow $v_2$ as well as the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ at RHIC and LHC energies. For the calculation we implement a Langevin approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Yu-Peng Yan , Marcus Bleicher

We calculate diffusion and hadronization of heavy quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions implementing the notion of a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma in both micro- and macroscopic components. The diffusion process is simulated…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

We study the heavy quark evolution in a quark-gluon plasma medium within the framework of Langevin equation coupled to a (2+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamic model. We modify the current Langevin algorithm such that apart from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Steffen A. Bass , Berndt Müller

We discuss resonance recombination for quarks and show that it is compatible with quark and hadron distributions in local thermal equilibrium. We then calculate realistic heavy quark phase space distributions in heavy ion collisions using…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Rainer J. Fries , Min He , Ralf Rapp

In peripheral heavy-ion collisions at ultra-relativistic energies, usually only parts of the colliding nuclei effectively interact with each other. In the overlapping zone, a fireball or quark-gluon plasma is produced. The excitation energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 K. Mazurek , A. Szczurek , C. Schmitt , P. N. Nadtochy

This paper presents a theoretical study on the production of the heavy-flavour decay lepton (HFL) in high-energy nuclear collisions at the LHC. The pp-baseline is calculated by the FONLL program, which matches the next-to-leading order pQCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-08 Sa Wang , Yao Li , Shuwan Shen , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

The goal of the ultra-relativistic heavy ion program is to study Quantum Chromodynamics under finite temperature and density conditions. After a couple of decades of experiment, the focus at the top RHIC and the LHC energy has evolved to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-10-03 Xin Dong

Heavy quark observables are applied to probe the initial energy density distribution with violation of longitudinal boost invariance produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Using an improved Langevin model coupled to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-01-25 Ze-Fang Jiang , Shanshan Cao , Wen-Jing Xing , Xiaowen Li , Ben-Wei Zhang

We calculate the hadron spectra in high-energy pp, pA and AA collisions within a pQCD parton model. Analyses of experimental data show that the modification of the spectra in pA and AA as compared to that in $pp$ collisions is consistent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Xin-Nian Wang

The subdiffusion phenomena are studied for heavy quarks dynamics in the hot QCD matter. My approach aims to provide a more realistic description of heavy quark dynamics through detailed theoretical analyses and numerical simulations,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Jai Prakash

The diffusion coefficients of heavy quarks from the coherent color electromagnetic fields which are generated in the early stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions are calculated at midrapidity, and compared with those obtained from…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-18 Taesoo Song , Thomas Epelbaum

By applying a Bayesian model-to-data analysis, we estimate the temperature and momentum dependence of the heavy quark diffusion coefficient in an improved Langevin framework. The posterior range of the diffusion coefficient is obtained by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-01-31 Yingru Xu , Marlene Nahrgang , Shanshan Cao , Jonah E. Bernhard , Steffen A. Bass

We study heavy flavor evolution and hadronization in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The in-medium evolution of heavy quarks is described using our modified Langevin framework that incorporates both collisional and radiative energy loss…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-28 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Steffen A Bass

We study the dynamics of charm quarks in the partonic medium and its implication to the di-electron spectra in high energy heavy ion collisions. The charm quarks traversing a thermal medium is simulated by the relativistic Langevin equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-22 Hao-jie Xu , Xin Dong , Li-juan Ruan , Qun Wang , Zhang-bu Xu , Yi-fei Zhang

Heavy-flavor particles are believed to provide valuable probes of the medium produced in ultrarelativistic collisions of heavy nuclei. In this article we review recent progress in our understanding of the interactions of charm and bottom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 Ralf Rapp , Hendrik van Hees

Recent progress of the quantum molecular dynamics model for describing the dynamics of heavy-ion collisions is viewed, in particular the nuclear fragmentation, isospin physics, particle production and in-medium effect, hadron-induced…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-03-01 Zhao-Qing Feng

We employ the POWLANG transport setup, developed over the last few years, to provide new predictions for several heavy-flavour observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions from RHIC to LHC center-of-mass energies. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 Andrea Beraudo , Arturo De Pace , Marco Monteno , Marzia Nardi , Francesco Prino

Heavy quarks are copiously produced in ultra-peripheral heavy ion collisions. In the strong electromagnetic fields, c c-bar and b b-bar are produced by photonuclear and two-photon interactions; hadroproduction can occur in grazing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Spencer R. Klein , Joakim Nystrand , Ramona Vogt

We study the impact of different Quark-Gluon Plasma expansion scenarios in heavy-ion collisions on spectra and elliptic flow of heavy quarks. For identical heavy-quark transport coefficients relativistic Langevin simulations with different…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Sascha Vogel , Hendrik van Hees , Joerg Aichelin , Ralf Rapp , Min He , Marcus Bluhm