Related papers: D-meson propagation in hot dense matter
We calculate the in-medium $D$ and $\bar D$-meson masses in isospin asymmetric nuclear matter in an effective chiral model. The $D$ and $\bar D$ - mass modifications arising from their interactions with the nucleons and the scalar mesons in…
The thermal relaxation rate of open-charm ($D$) mesons in hot and dense hadronic matter is calculated using empirical elastic scattering amplitudes. $D$-meson interactions with thermal pions are approximated by $D^*$ resonances, while…
The $D$-meson spectral density at finite temperature is obtained within a self-consistent coupled-channel approach. For the bare meson-baryon interaction, a separable potential is taken, whose parameters are fixed by the position and width…
In this work we study the $D^*$ and $D$ multiplicities and how they change during the hadron gas phase of heavy ion collisions. With the help of an effective Lagrangian formalism, we calculate the production and absorption cross sections of…
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…
Heavy baryon/meson ratios $\Lambda_c/D^0$ and $\Lambda_b/\bar{B}^0$ in relativistic heavy ion collisions are studied in the quark coalescence model. For heavy baryons, we include production from coalescence of heavy quarks with free light…
The string melting version of a multi-phase transport model is often applied to high-energy heavy-ion collisions since the dense matter thus formed is expected to be in parton degrees of freedom. In this work we improve its quark…
Heavy quarks are excellent probes to understand the hot and dense medium formed in ultra-relativistic collisions. In a hadronic medium, studying the transport properties, e.g. the drag ($\gamma$), momentum diffusion ($B_{0}$), and spatial…
We present a study of the directed flow $v_1$ for $D$ mesons discussing both the impact of initial vorticity and electromagnetic field. Recent studies predicted that $v_1$ for $D$ mesons is expected to be surprisingly much larger than that…
We study the D-meson spectral density in dense matter within the framework of a coupled-channel self-consistent calculation taking, as bare meson-baryon interaction, a separable potential. Our coupled-channel model generates dynamically the…
Heavy flavor production serves as an ideal probe of the hadronization mechanism of the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. We study charm quark hadronization by taking Langevin equations for the charm quark…
The hadronic transport model \textsc{art} is extended to include the production and annihilation of deuterons via the reactions $BB \leftrightarrow dM$, where $B$ and $M$ stand for baryons and mesons, respectively, as well as their elastic…
We investigate the charm-quark propagation in the QGP media produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. Purely collisional and radiative processes lead to a significant suppression of final $D$-meson spectra at…
The interaction and propagation of anti-B mesons with light mesons, N and Delta baryons is studied within a unitarized approach based on effective models that are compatible with chiral and heavy-quark symmetries. We find several…
In this work we evaluate the B-meson drag and diffusion coefficients in a hot medium constituted of light mesons (pions, kaons and eta mesons). We treat the B-meson and B*-meson interaction with pseudo-Goldstone bosons in chiral…
We study the in-medium properties of $D$ and $\bar{D}$ mesons in isospin-asymmetric nuclear matter at finite temperatures using an effective chiral SU(4) model. The interactions of $D$ and $\bar{D}$ mesons with nucleons, scalar isoscalar…
Heavy flavor physics in high-energy heavy-ion collisions is a promising and active area to study the mass dependence of the "jet quenching" effects both at the RHIC and the LHC. In this talk, we present the first theoretical study on the…
The relativistic kinetic theory approach has been employed to study four well-known transport coefficients that characterize heat flow and diffusion for the case of a hot mixture constituting of nucleons and pions. Medium effects on the…
We compute the charm drag and diffusion coefficients in a hot pion gas, such as is formed in a Heavy Ion Collision after the system cools sufficiently to transit into the hadron phase. We fully exploit Heavy Quark Effective Theory (with…
This dissertation focuses on the calculation of transport coefficients in the matter created in a relativistic heavy-ion collision after the chemical freeze-out. This matter can be well approximated by a pion gas out of equilibrium. We…