Published February 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Quarkonium production in heavy ion collisions: coupled Boltzmann transport equations

  • 1. Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 27708 (United States)

Description

We develop a set of coupled Boltzmann equations to describe the dynamical evolution of heavy quarks and quarkonia inside the quark-gluon plasma. The quarkonium dissociation and recombination terms are calculated from pNRQCD. Their interplay drives the system to a detailed balance. The heavy quark energy loss term is necessary for the system to reach kinematic thermalization. By coupling the transport equations with initial particles' momenta generated by Pythia and hydrodynamic medium evolutions, we can describe the RAA of ϒ family at both RHIC and LHC energies. The transverse momentum azimuthal anisotropy of ϒ(1S) in 2.76 TeV peripheral Pb-Pb collisions is also studied.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.10.005

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Additional titles

Augmented title (English)
KEYWORDS: QUARKONIUM PRODUCTION;HEAVY ION COLLISION;BOLTZMANN EQUATION;PNRQCD;DETAILED BALANCE;EQUILIBRIUM

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.10.005;
arXiv
arXiv:1807.06199v1;
PII
S0375947418302781;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
982
Journal Page Range
p. 755-758
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

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© 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.