Speaker
Dr
Andrea Beraudo
(INFN (Torino))
Description
We present results for the quenching, elliptic flow and azimuthal correlations of heavy flavours in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions obtained through the POWLANG transport setup, developed in the past to study the propagation of heavy quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma and here extended to include a modeling of their hadronization in the presence of a medium. Hadronization is described as occurring via the fragmentation of strings with endpoints given by the heavy (anti-)quark Q/Qbar and a thermal parton qbar/q from the medium. The flow of the light quarks is shown to affect significantly the R_AA and v_2 of the final D mesons, leading to a better agreement with the experimental data. The approach allows also predictions for the angular correlation between heavy-flavour hadrons (or their decay electrons) and the charged particles produced in the fragmentation of the heavy quark strings.
Author
Dr
Andrea Beraudo
(INFN (Torino))
Co-authors
Dr
Arturo De Pace
(INFN)
Francesco Prino
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Marco Monteno
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Marzia Nardi
(Unknown)
