Conveners
Heavy Flavour
- Pol Gossiaux (Subatech)
Heavy quarks are effective probes of the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Charm and beauty quarks, due to their masses, are produced in hard scattering processes on timescales shorter than the QGP formation time. They experience the entire evolution of the medium, interacting with its constituents via in-medium gluon radiation and...
The heavy-flavour particles are produced in the earlier stage in heavy-ion collision and experience the full evolution of the QGP medium. The measurement of D mesons could provide us important inputs for flavour and charge dependent transport properties. On the other hand, with abundant strange quarks presented in heavy-ion collision, the $D_{S}^{+}$ production is expected to be enhanced...
We study the propagation of heavy quarks (HQ), charm and bottom, in the QGP by means of a relativistic Boltzmann transport approach. The non-perturbative interaction between HQs and light quarks is described by means of a quasi-particle approach that permits to have an Equation of State close to lattice QCD and it is able to describe the main feature of the non-perturbative dynamics: the...
At RHIC energies, charm quarks are primarily produced at early stages of ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions, in hard partonic scatterings. This makes them an ideal probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) since they experience the whole evolution of the hot and dense medium. STAR is able to measure the production of charm quarks and their interaction with the QGP through direct...
Beauty quarks are considered to be one of the golden probes of the strong interacting medium created in heavy-ion collisions as they are mainly produced via initial hard scatterings and strongly interact with the medium. They are sensitive to the transport properties of the medium and may interact with the QCD matter differently from light quarks. High-precision measurement of B mesons will...
