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Heavy-flavour hadron production provides information about the transport properties and microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A measurement of the muons from semileptonic decays…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-21 ATLAS Collaboration

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 E. L. Bratkovskaya , T. Song , H. Berrehrah , D. Cabrera , J. M. Torres-Rincon , L. Tolos , W. Cassing

Heavy-flavour hadrons, containing at least one charm or beauty quark, are excellent probes of the deconfined medium created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, known as quark-gluon plasma. Results in smaller collision systems, such…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-11-19 Fiorella Fionda

The formation of hadrons is a fundamental process in nature that can be investigated at particle colliders. As several recent findings demonstrate, with $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ collisions as a "vacuum-like" reference at one extreme, and central…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-13 J. Altmann , A. Dubla , V. Greco , A. Rossi , P. Skands

Quarks of heavy flavors are useful tool to study quark-gluon plasma created in heavy-ion collisions. Due to their high mass and early production time, heavy quarks experience the entire evolution of the system created in these collisions.…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-01-11 Leszek Kosarzewski

The hot and dense QCD matter, known as the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is explored through heavy-ion collision experiments at the LHC and RHIC. Jets and heavy flavors, produced from the initial hard scattering, are used as hard probes to…

One of the key signatures of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) is the modification of hadron and direct photon spectra in heavy-ion collisions as compared to proton-proton (pp) collisions. Suppression of hadron production at high transverse…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Astrid Morreale

Measurements of quarkonia (heavy quark and antiquark bound states) and open-heavy flavour hadrons in hadronic collisions provide a unique testing ground for understanding quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Although recently there was significant…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-08-23 Sebastien Perrin

Charm production from the quark-gluon plasma created in the midrapidity of central heavy ion collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is studied in the next-to-leading order in QCD. Using a schematic longitudinally boost-invariant and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Ben-Wei Zhang , Che Ming Ko , Wei Liu

Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculation predicts that a colour-deconfined QCD matter, Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP), is formed at high temperature and energy density reached in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Heavy quarks…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-01-08 Daichi Kawana

Heavy-flavor hadrons produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are a sensitive probe for studying hadronization mechanisms of the quark-gluon-plasma. In this work, we survey how different transport models for the simulation of…

We study the production of heavy quarks, charm at BNL-RHIC ($\sqrt{s}$=200 GeV/nucleon) and CERN-LHC ($\sqrt{s}$=5.5 TeV/nucleon) and bottom at CERN-LHC from heavy ions colliding at relativistic energies. We consider initial fusion of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Mohammed Younus , Dinesh K. Srivastava

Heavy-flavor hadrons are one of the most prominent probes to study the quark-gluon plasma and to test models based on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This contribution presents the latest results regarding heavy-flavor production in ALICE,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-12-03 Victor Feuillard

Charm and beauty quark production measurement represents a fundamental means to access the initial stage of hadronic collisions. Being produced almost exclusively in initial hard partonic scatterings due to their large masses,…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-10-20 Michele Pennisi

Heavy quarks, produced at early stages of heavy-ion collisions, are an excellent probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) also created in these collisions. Electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays (HFE) are good proxies for heavy quarks,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 Shenghui Zhang , Rongrong Ma , Yuanjing Ji , Zebo Tang , Qian Yang , Yifei Zhang , Wangwei Zha

Heavy-flavour quarks, due to their large masses, are produced in the early stages of the relativistic heavy-ion collisions via initial hard scatterings. Therefore, as they experience the full system evolution, heavy quarks are effective…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-17 Sudhir Pandurang Rode

Ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions at the laboratory provide a unique chance to study quantum chromodynamics (QCD) under extreme temperature (${\approx}150\,\mathrm{MeV}$) and density (${\approx}1\,\mathrm{GeV}/\mathrm{fm}^3$)…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-10-30 Georgios Konstantinos Krintiras

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

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

Using the two-component model that includes charmonium production from initial nucleon-nucleon hard scattering and regeneration in the produced quark-gluon plasma, we study $J/\psi$ production in heavy ion collisions at SPS, RHIC and LHC.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Taesoo Song , Kyong Chol Han , Che Ming Ko