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In this contribution we present an alternative scenario for the large elliptic flow observed in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Motivated by recent results from Lattice QCD on flavor off-diagonal susceptibilities we argue that the matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Volker Koch

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 dynamics of charm quarks in the partonic medium and its implication to the di-electron spectra in high energy heavy ion collisions. The charm quarks traversing a thermal medium is simulated by the relativistic Langevin equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-22 Hao-jie Xu , Xin Dong , Li-juan Ruan , Qun Wang , Zhang-bu Xu , Yi-fei Zhang

In this presentation, I discussed a) the charm total cross-section and its comparisons to measurements at other beam energies and pQCD calculations; b) the semileptonic decay of charmed hadrons and the sensitivity of non-photonic leptons to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 Zhangbu Xu

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

The charm quark is formed almost exclusively during the initial stages of the collision, and a significant fraction of the charm quarks fragment into the $\mathrm{D}^{0}$ meson, the lightest open-charm hadron. We can gain insights into the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-29 Soumik Chandra

The strong interaction between heavy quarks and the quark gluon plasma makes the open and hidden charm hadrons be sensitive probes of the deconfinement phase transition in high energy nuclear collisions. Both the cold and hot nuclear matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Kai Zhou , Wei Dai , Nu Xu , Pengfei Zhuang

Based on the framework of an extended multiphase transport model with mean-field potentials in both the partonic phase and the hadronic phase, we explain the elliptic flow difference between $\pi^+$ and $\pi^-$ in the beam-energy scan…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-18 He Liu , Feng-Tao Wang , Kai-Jia Sun , Jun Xu , Che Ming Ko

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

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Sarcevic , P. Valerio

We investigate the elliptic and the triangular flow of heavy mesons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. The dynamics of heavy quarks is coupled to the locally thermalized and fluid dynamically evolving quark-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Marlene Nahrgang , Jörg Aichelin , Steffen Bass , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

We study the impact of self-generated electromagnetic fields (EMF) on the charm quarks momentum evolution in the partonic and hadronic medium created in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC energy within the Parton-Hadron-String Dynamics (PHSD)…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-31 Santosh K. Das , Olga Soloveva , Taesoo Song , Elena Bratkovskaya

Production, elliptic flow and the nuclear modification factor of charm and bottom quarks are studied in central and non-central heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC using the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach of MultiParton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-11 Jan Uphoff , Oliver Fochler , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

The scaling properties of elliptic flow of hadrons produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions are investigated at low transverse momenta, $p_T\lsim 2$\,GeV. Utilizing empirical parameterizations of a thermalized fireball with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-21 Min He , Rainer J. Fries , 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

The space-time propagation of heavy quarks in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions is studied within the partonic transport model Boltzmann Approach of MultiParton Scatterings (BAMPS). In this model heavy quarks interact with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-25 Jan Uphoff , Oliver Fochler , Zhe Xu , Carsten Greiner

We describe the propagation of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of an event-by-event transport approach. In our calculations the non-perturbative interaction between heavy quarks and light quarks has been taken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Maria Lucia Sambataro , Yifeng Sun , Vincenzo Minissale , Salvatore Plumari , Vincenzo Greco

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…

Charm-hadrons possess versatile hadro-chemistry as characterized by various transverse-momentum-dependent ratios between their different species. In particular, the charm hadro-chemistry may be modified in relativistic heavy-ion collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Kai Lu , Min He

One of the most promising probes to study deconfined matter created in high energy nuclear collisions is the energy loss of (heavy) quarks. It has been shown in experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that even charm and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Sascha Vogel , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner , Joerg Aichelin

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