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Nonperturbative effects in $D$-meson production in pion-nucleon and proton-nucleon collisions are investigated within the recombination model. The coalescence of perturbatively created charm quarks with sea- and valence-quarks from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Rapp , E. V. Shuryak

In recent years, PHENIX has studied many important observables related to heavy-flavor physics through their leptonic decay measurements including the invariant yield of electrons from nonphotonic sources, and prompt single muons, both of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-21 Marisilvia Donadelli

In relativistic heavy-ion physics two-particle correlations provide a very useful tool to investigate the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP). This observable is sensitive to several of the properties of the QGP such as resonances, interaction of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Pereira De Oliveira Filho

The production and space-time evolution of heavy quarks and J/psi in the quark gluon plasma is studied within the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach to MultiParton Scatterings (BAMPS). This framework allows interactions among all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Jan Uphoff , Oliver Fochler , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

In central collisions at relativistic heavy ion colliders like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC/Brookhaven and the Large Hadron Collider LHC (in its heavy ion mode) at CERN/Geneva, one aims at detecting a new form of hadronic matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerhard Baur , Kai Hencken , Dirk Trautmann

Heavy quarks are effective probes to study the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. In this contribution, the latest results on open heavy-flavour production in pp and Pb-Pb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-09-21 Luuk Vermunt

In central collisions at relativistic heavy ion colliders like the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RHIC/Brookhaven and the Large Hadron Collider LHC (in its heavy ion mode) at CERN/Geneva, one aims at detecting a new form of hadronic matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Baur , Kai Hencken , Dirk Trautmann

In these proceedings, the elliptic flow ($v_{2}$) measurement of prompt and non-prompt charm hadrons - originating respectively from the fragmentation of a charm quark and from the decay of hadrons with beauty-quark content - in Pb-Pb…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-04 Marcello Di Costanzo

We present results for the quenching, elliptic flow and azimuthal correlations of heavy flavour particles in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions obtained through the POWLANG transport setup, developed in the past to study the propagation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 A. Beraudo , A. De Pace , M. Monteno , M. Nardi , F. Prino

We study the diffusion of charm and beauty in the early stage of high energy nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC energies, considering the interaction of these heavy quarks with the evolving Glasma by means of the Wong equations. In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-13 J. H. Liu , S. Plumari , S. K. Das , V. Greco , M. Ruggieri

Due to the large masses, heavy-flavor quarks are dominantly produced in initial hard scattering processes and experience the whole evolution of the medium produced in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energies. They are also expected to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-12-27 Guannan Xie

We study the propagation of heavy quarks (HQs) in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of a relativistic Boltzmann transport (RBT) approach. The non-perturbative interaction between heavy quarks and light quarks is described by means of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 S. Plumari , G. Coci , S. K. Das , V. Minissale , V. Greco

The determination of the color force in a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is a key objective in the investigation of strong-interaction matter. Open and hidden heavy-flavor observables in heavy-ion collisions (HICs) are believed to provide…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-15 Shuai Y. F. Liu , Min He , Ralf Rapp

Over the last decade it has been established that a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) is formed in ultrarelativistic A+A collisions at RHIC energies. In recent years, detector upgrades have enabled the detailed study of this hot and dense matter.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Baldo Sahlmueller

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 collision, mainly in hard partonic scattering processes, and are expected to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-02-20 Andrea Dubla

We investigate charm-quark dynamics in asymmetric Cu+Au collisions at top RHIC energy using a Langevin approach embedded in a realistic hydrodynamic background. The intrinsic asymmetry of the colliding nuclei leads to a spatially lopsided…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Ankit Kumar Panda , Tribhuban Parida

We present a review of the current understanding of the heavy quark distributions in the nucleon and their impact on collider physics. The origin of strange, charm and bottom quark pairs at high light-front (LF) momentum fractions in hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 S. J. Brodsky , V. A. Bednyakov , G. I. Lykasov , J. Smiesko , S. Tokar

It is widely acknowledged that heavy flavor probes are sensitive to the properties of the quark-gluon plasma and are often considered an important tool for the plasma tomography studies. Forward rapidity observables can provide further…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Caio A. G. Prado , Wen-Jing Xing , Shanshan Cao , Guang-You Qin , Xin-Nian Wang

The study of angular correlations of heavy-flavor particles in hadronic collisions can provide crucial insight into the heavy quark production, showering, and hadronization processes. The comparison with model predictions allows us to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-05 Deepa Thomas , Fabio Colamaria

The study of charm production in heavy-ion collisions is considered an excellent probe for the properties of the hot and dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions. Measurements of D-meson nuclear modification can provide strong…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-01-29 Zhaozhong Shi