Conveners
Parallel Session I: Heavy Flavor (I)
- Steffen A. Bass (Duke University)
Because of their large mass, heavy quarks are produced primarily at early stages of heavy-ion collisions, and therefore experience the full evolution of the system and carry information about the extent of thermalization of the QGP. Azimuthal anisotropy parameters (v_n) of charm and bottom hadrons provide unique information about the path length dependent interactions between heavy quarks and...
Hard hadrons, including heavy flavor and high $p_\mathrm{T}$ light flavor hadrons, are ideal probes of the transport properties of the QGP matter created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We have established a Linearized Boltzmann Transport (LBT) model coupled with hydrodynamical background to study the in-medium evolution of hard partons, in which both elastic and inelastic processes are...
Event-by-event fluctuations play a key role in resolving the long-standing $v_2$ to $R_{AA}$ puzzle for jets [1]. In this talk, the same general idea employed in [1] is used to investigate the event-by-event properties of $R_{AA}$ and $v_n$ of heavy flavor. Heavy quarks propagate and lose energy in the medium described by the 2D+1 viscous hydrodynamic code v-USPhydro [3] on an event-by-event...
