Speaker
Prof.
Marco Ruggieri
(University of Catania)
Description
The early stage of high-energy nuclear collisions is dominated by strong gluon fields called the evolving Glasma. This stage can be probed by heavy quarks (HQs), charm and beauty, since they are produced almost immediately by hard scatterings. We study the propagation of HQs in the evolving Glasma fields, by solving the relativistic kinetic equations that couple the HQs to the fields themselves. We analyze the impacts of this (so far) neglected dynamics on observables, namely the nuclear modification factor and the elliptic flow. We find that both these quantities are affected in a substantial way by the propagation in the early gluon fields.
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Primary authors
Prof.
Marco Ruggieri
(University of Catania)
Ms
Pooja -
(Indian Institute of Technology Goa)
Dr
Santosh Das
(Indian Institute of Technology Goa)
Prof.
Vincenzo Greco
(University of Catania)
