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We study heavy flavor evolution in the quark-gluon plasma matter and the subsequent hadron gas created in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. The motion of heavy quarks inside the QGP is described using our modified Langevin framework…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Steffen Bass

A snapshot of the results for heavy-flavour observables in heavy-ion (AA) collisions at RHIC and LHC obtained with our transport calculations is displayed. The initial charm and beauty production is simulated through pQCD tools…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , M. Monteno , F. Prino , W. M. Alberico , A. Molinari , M. Nardi

Employing nonperturbative transport coefficients for heavy-flavor (HF) diffusion through quark-gluon plasma (QGP), hadronization and hadronic matter, we compute $D$- and $B$-meson observables in Pb+Pb ($\sqrt{s}$=2.76\,TeV) collisions at…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

Relativistic heavy-ion collisions produce a hot and dense thermalized medium, that is expected to emit thermal radiation in form of dileptons. These dileptons are not affected by the strong force and are therefore a clean probe for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-06-03 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

We study the charmed meson and baryon production and elliptic flow in ultra-relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at the LHC energies. The space-time evolution of quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in these energetic collisions is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-07 Yu-Fei Liu , Wen-Jing Xing , Xiang-Yu Wu , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Shu-Qing Li

In this contribution, the nuclear modification factor and azimuthal anisotropy of prompt charm mesons and baryons in Pb-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=5.02$ TeV by the ALICE Collaboration are presented. Heavy quarks are a very…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-07-29 Luuk Vermunt

Charm elliptic flow in heavy ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) is studied in a multiphase transport model. Assuming that the cross section for charm quark scattering with other light quarks is the same as that…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Bin Zhang , Lie-Wen Chen , Che-Ming Ko

Studying heavy-flavour mesons and baryons in hadronic collisions provides unique insights into the properties of heavy-quark hadronisation amid large partonic densities, where novel mechanisms beyond in-vacuum fragmentation may emerge.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-07-19 Jonghan Park

Measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed strong modification of the jet structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, which can be attributed to the interaction of hard…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Andre Mischke

We discuss production of charm quarks and mesons as well as nonphotonic electrons in $pp$ scattering at RHIC. The distributions in rapidity and transverse momentum of charm and bottom quarks/antiquarks are calculated in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-12 Antoni Szczurek

The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport properties. In addition, the experimentally observed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Min He , Hendrik van Hees , Ralf Rapp

Heavy quarks, like charm and beauty, are sensitive probes to investigate the colour-deconfined medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The ALICE Collaboration measured the production of D$^{0}$,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2021-02-03 Stefano Trogolo

The production of heavy quarks (charm and beauty) provides unique insights into the transport properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. Experimentally, the nuclear modification factor ${{R}_{\rm AA}}$ and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-07 Shuang Li , Wei Xiong , Renzhuo Wan

The drag and diffusion coefficients of charm and bottom quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma (QGP) have been evaluated within the framework of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (pQCD). Both radiative and collisional processes of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-02-08 Santosh K Das , Jan-e Alam

There are several indications that an opaque partonic medium is created in energetic Au+Au collisions \sqrt{s} ~ 100 GeV/nucleon at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). At the extreme densities of ~ 10-100 times normal nuclear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-09-13 Denes Molnar

Hadrons carrying open heavy flavor, i.e. single charm or bottom quarks, are among the key diagnostic tools available today for the hot and dense state of strongly interacting matter which is produced in collisions of heavy atomic nuclei at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Averbeck

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 open heavy-flavor (HF) transport in relativistic heavy-ion collisions by applying a strong-coupling treatment in both macro- and microscopic dynamics (hydrodynamics and non-perturbative diffusion interactions). The hydrodynamic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-08-02 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , Ralf Rapp

The suppression and collective flow of open and hidden heavy flavor in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied with the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach to MultiParton Scatterings (BAMPS). Charm and bottom quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-30 Jan Uphoff , Oliver Fochler , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

Heavy quarks are valuable probes of the electromagnetic field and the initial condition of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) matter produced in high-energy nuclear collisions. Within an improved Langevin model that is coupled to a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Ze-Fang Jiang , Shanshan Cao , Wen-Jing Xing , Xiang-Yu Wu , C. B. Yang , Ben-Wei Zhang