Published February 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Transport properties from Charm to Bottom: pT suppression, anisotropic flow νn and their correlations to the bulk dynamics

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 1-95125 Catania (Italy)
  • 2. Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS, Via S. Sofia 62, I-95123 Catania (Italy)
  • 3. School of Nuclear Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, 730000 Lanzhou (China)

Description

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 quasi-particle approach able to describe simultaneously the experimental data for the nuclear suppression factor RAA and the elliptic flow ν2(pT) of D mesons from RHIC to LHC energies. In the same framework we predict the B meson nuclear modification factor at LHC. Finally, we discuss the relevance of initial state fluctuations that allows to extend the analysis to high order anisotropic flows νn(pT) as well as to investigate the role of QCD interaction in developing correlations between the light and the heavy flavour anisotropic flows.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.10.070

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KEYWORDS: QUARK-GLUON PLASMA;HEAVY QUARKS

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.10.070;
arXiv
arXiv:1901.07815v1;
PII
S0375947418303518;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
982
Journal Page Range
p. 655-658
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

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