https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817118014
Heavy Quark Dynamics toward thermalization: RAA, υ1, υ2, υ3
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Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, 1-95125 Catania, Italy
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Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS, Via S. Sofia 62, I-95123 Catania, Italy
* e-mail: salvatore.plumari@hotmail.it
Published online: 2 February 2018
We describe the propagation of Heavy quarks (HQs) in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) within a relativistic Boltzmann transport (RBT) approach. The interaction between heavy quarks and light quarks is described within quasi-particle approach which is able to catch the main features of non-perturbative interaction as the increasing of the interaction in the region of low temperature near TC. In our calculations the hadronization of charm quarks in D mesons is described by mean of an hybrid model of coalescence plus fragmentation. We show that the coalescence play a key role to get a good description of the experimental data for the nuclear suppression factor RAA and the elliptic flow υ2(pT) at both RHIC and LHC energies. Moreover, we show some recent results on the direct flow υ1 and triangular flow υ3 of D meson.
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