Speaker
Caio Alves Garcia Prado
(Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))
Description
In this work we investigate how event-by-event hydrodynamic fluctuations affect the nuclear suppression factor and elliptic flow of heavy flavor mesons and non-photonic electrons. Local temperature and flow profiles are computed using a 2D+1 Lagrangian ideal hydrodynamic code [1] on an event-by-event basis. We use a strong coupling inspired energy loss parametrization [2] on top of the evolving space-time energy density distributions to propagate the heavy quarks inside the medium until the freeze-out temperature is reached and hadronization (modeled using PYTHIA) takes place. The resulting D$^0$ and non-photonic electron yield, computed event by event [6], is compared with recent experimental data for $R_\text{AA}$ and $v_2$ from the STAR and PHENIX collaborations [3-5]. We also present predictions for the higher order Fourier harmonic coefficients $v_3(p_T)$ and $v_4(p_T)$ of non-photonic electrons at RHIC's $\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV/n collisions.
REFERENCES:
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[2] S. S. Gubser, Phys. Rev. D **74**, 126005 (2006).
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[5] L. Adamczyk *et al.* [STAR Collaboration], arXiv:1405.6348 [hep-ex].
[6] Caio A. G. Prado, Mauro R. Cosentino, Marcelo G. Munhoz, Alexandre A. P. Suaide, and Jorge Noronha, “Heavy flavor electron $R_\text{AA}$ and $v_2$ in event-by-event relativistic hydrodynamics”, to appear.
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Author
Caio Alves Garcia Prado
(Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))
Co-authors
Alexandre Alarcon Do Passo Suaide
(Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))
Jorge Noronha
(University of Sao Paulo)
Marcelo Gameiro Munhoz
(Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))
Mauro Rogerio Cosentino
(Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR))
