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We review the experimental and theoretical status of open heavy-flavor (HF) production in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC. We first overview the theoretical concepts and pertinent calculations of HF transport in QCD matter,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-08-24 Francesco Prino , Ralf Rapp

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 2016-09-01 Ina Sarcevic

We study charm production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions by using the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. The initial charm quarks are produced by the Pythia event generator tuned to fit the transverse…

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 study the dynamics of open charm production and the dilepton radiation of the semi-leptonic decays of correlated $D\bar D$ pairs versus the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) radiation and hadronic sources in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Elena Bratkovskaya , Taesoo Song , Pierre Moreau , Carsten Greiner

The heavy charm and bottom quarks are unique probes of the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) and its hadronization in high-energy nuclear collisions. A key challenge in this context is to embed the interactions of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Tharun Krishna , Ralf Rapp , Yu Fu , Steffen A. Bass , Weiyao Ke

We study the production dynamics of charm quarks in the parton cascade model for relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. The model is eminently suited for a study of the pre-equilibrium dynamics of charm quarks at modest…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-04-19 Dinesh K. Srivastava , Rupa Chatterjee

Heavy quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are considered calibrated probes for the strongly interacting deconfined medium (Quark Gluon Plasma, QGP) formed in heavy-ion collisions. Produced in hard scattering processes in the initial stages of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-09 A. Rossi , for ALICE Collaboration

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Sa Wang , Wei Dai , Jun Yan , Ben-Wei Zhang , Enke Wang

The Compressed Baryonic Matter (CBM) experiment at the Facility for Anti-proton and Ion Research (FAIR) will provide new possibilities for charm-quark ($D$-meson) observables in heavy-ion collisions at low collision energies and high baryon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-09 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

In Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions (HICs) very strong initial electro-magnetic (E.M.) fields are created: the order of magnitude of the magnetic field is about $10^{19} \, Gauss$, the most intense field in the Universe, even larger…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Gabriele Coci , Lucia Oliva , Salvatore Plumari , Santosh Kumar Das , Vincenzo Greco

Heavy-flavour quarks are important to probe Quark-Gluon Plasma(QGP) properties. Cold Nuclear Matter(CNM) effects can be accessed by $p$Pb collisions. LHCb is a heavy-flavour precision experiment and has collected large collision data…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-10-30 Jiajia Qin

The large values and the constituent-quark-number (NCQ) scaling of the elliptic flow of low-$p_T$ $D$ mesons imply that charm quarks, initially produced through hard processes, might be partially thermalized through the strong interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-09-01 Chi Ding , Wei-Yao Ke , Long-Gang Pang , Xin-Nian Wang

Heavy quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are sensitive probes of the medium produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. They are produced in the early stage of the collisions and are expected to experience the whole collision evolution…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Andrea Dubla

We investigate the thermal production of charm quarks in the strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma (sQGP) created in heavy-ion collisions at relativistic energies. Our study is based on the off-shell parton-hadron-string dynamics (PHSD)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-02-28 Taesoo Song , Ilia Grishmanovskii , Olga Soloveva , Elena Bratkovskaya

The study of heavy flavor production in relativistic heavy ion collisions is an extreme experimental challenge but provides important information on the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in Au+Au collisions at RHIC.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. P. Suaide

The peculiar role of heavy-flavour observables in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is discussed. Produced in the early stage, $c$ and $b$ quarks cross the hot medium arising from the collision, interacting strongly with the latter, until…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-27 Andrea Beraudo

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

A study of elliptic flow of open charm mesons, $D^0$ and $D_S ^\pm$ using quark coalescence as a mechanism of hadronization of heavy quarks implemented in conjunction with A Multi Phase Transport (AMPT) model has been presented. We have…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Roli Esha , Md. Nasim , Huan Zhong Huang

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