Conveners
Parallel Session III: Heavy Flavor (III)
- Xin Dong (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Heavy quarks, predominantly produced in hard scattering processes at the initial stages of heavy-ion collisions, are considered excellent probes to the strongly interacting deconfined medium formed in these collisions. In particular the $D_{s}($c$\bar{s}/\bar{c}$s) production in heavy-ion collisions is expected to be affected by both the strangeness enhancement and the...
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The measurement of heavy flavour production is a powerful tool to study the properties of the high-density QCD medium created in heavy-ion collisions as heavy quarks are sensitive to the transport properties of the medium and may interact with the QCD matter differently from light quarks. In particular, the comparison between the nuclear modification factors of light- and heavy-flavour...
1) S.~K.~Das, F.~Scardina, S.~Plumari and V.~Greco,
``Toward a solution to the $R_{AA}$ and $v_2$ puzzle for heavy quarks,''
Phys. Lett. B747 (2015) 260
2) S.~K.~Das, F.~Scardina, S.~Plumari and V.~Greco,
``Heavy-flavor in-medium momentum evolution: Langevin versus Boltzmann approach,''
Phys. Rev. C90 (2014) 044901
3) S.~K.~Das, J.~M.~Torres-Rincon, L.~Tolos, F.~Scardina...
Heavy quarks (charm and bottom) serve as valuable probes to study the properties (such as the transport properties) of the strongly-interacting quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. However, the simultaneous description the nuclear modification factor $R_{AA}$ and the elliptic flow $v_2$ of heavy quarks poses a significant challenge for most commonly used...
