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Heavy quarks are sensitive probes of the colour-deconfined medium formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). The ALICE Collaboration measured the production of $\rm D^0$, $\rm D^+$, and $\rm D^{*+}$…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-09-17 Fabrizio Grosa

Heavy quarks are a unique probe to study the medium produced in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. Within the partonic transport model Boltzmann approach to multi-parton scatterings (BAMPS) the production, energy loss and elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-20 Jan Uphoff , Oliver Fochler , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

Heavy quarks produced in the heavy ion collisions loose energy while propagting in the hot partonic matter which finally fragment to heavy ($D$ or $B$) mesons. The energy loss suffered by the heavy quarks is imprinted in the nuclear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Somnath De , Sudipan De , Prashant Shukla

We review the problem of heavy-quark diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma and its ramifications for heavy-quark spectra in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC. In particular, we attempt to reconcile underlying mechanisms of several seemingly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Ralf Rapp

The heavy ion experiments in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are going through upgrade in the next five years, shifting their focus more on the hard processes in the new runs. One of the main goals is…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2024-02-16 Hai-Tao Shu

The invariant mass spectrum and the elliptic flow of lepton pairs produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC are studied with viscous hydrodynamics. The effects of viscous corrections on dilepton observables are explored. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-03-19 Gojko Vujanovic , Clint Young , Bjoern Schenke , Ralf Rapp , Sangyong Jeon , Charles Gale

Heavy quarks are effective probes of the properties of the QGP created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The ALICE Collaboration measured the non-strange D-meson production in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN\,}}=5.02$ TeV.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-10-11 Syaefudin Jaelani

Heavy quarks are powerful tools to characterize the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic nuclear collisions. By exploiting a mapping between transport theory and hydrodynamics, we developed a fluid-dynamic description of…

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

The study of heavy-flavour (charm and beauty) production is important to understand the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, since heavy quarks are produced in the initial stages of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Luuk Vermunt

The propagation of the heavy quarks produced in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC is studied within the framework of Langevin dynamics in the background of an expanding deconfined medium described by ideal and viscous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-08 W. M. Alberico , A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , A. Molinari , M. Monteno , M. Nardi , F. Prino

We present results on rapidity and transverse momentum distributions of inclusive charm quark production in hadronic and heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies, including the next-to-leading order, $O(\alpha_s^3)$, radiative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Ina Sarcevic

For over a decade now, the primary purpose of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been to study the properties of QCD matter under extreme conditions -high…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-07-19 Md. Nasim , Roli Esha , Huan Zhong Huang

The drag and diffusion coefficients of heavy baryons ($\Lambda_c$ and $\Lambda_b$) in the hadronic phase created in the latter stage of the heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies have been evaluated recently. In this work we compute…

Charm quarks serve as a sensitive probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), providing direct insights into its formation, evolution, and properties. In this proceeding, we present new high-precision measurements from the CMS experiment in…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-29 Nihar Ranjan Saha

The drag and diffusion coefficients of charm and bottom quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma have been evaluated for conditions relevant to nuclear collisions at Large Hadron Collider and Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Both the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Santosh K Das , Jan-e Alam

Charm and bottom quarks are formed predominantly by gluon fusion in the initial hard scatterings at RHIC, making them good probes of the full medium evolution. Previous measurements at RHIC have shown large suppression and azimuthal…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-06-22 Sanghoon Lim

Heavy-flavour hadrons, i. e. hadrons carrying charm or beauty quarks, are a well-suited probe to study the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. For this reason, measurements of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-10-28 E. Pereira de Oliveira Filho

Open heavy flavor and quarkonia have long been identified as ideal probes for understanding the quark-gluon plasma (QGP). Heavy quarks are produced in the early stage of the heavy-ion collisions. Therefore they experience the evolution of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2024-11-25 Victor Valencia Torres

We describe the propagation of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of a Boltzmann transport approach. Non-perturbative interaction between heavy quarks and light quarks have been taken into account through a quasi-particle…