Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

Heavy-quark diffusion in the quark–gluon plasma

M He, H van Hees, R Rapp - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-
energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport …

Extraction of heavy-flavor transport coefficients in QCD matter

R Rapp, PB Gossiaux, A Andronic, R Averbeck… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
We report on broadly based systematic investigations of the modeling components for open
heavy-flavor diffusion and energy loss in strongly interacting matter in their application to …

Measurement of Azimuthal Anisotropy at Midrapidity in Collisions at

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We report the first measurement of the elliptic anisotropy (v 2) of the charm meson D 0 at
midrapidity (| y|< 1) in Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 200 GeV. The measurement was …

Open heavy flavor in QCD matter and in nuclear collisions

F Prino, R Rapp - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the experimental and theoretical status of open heavy-flavor (HF) production in
high-energy nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large …

Estimating the charm quark diffusion coefficient and thermalization time from meson spectra at energies available at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and the …

F Scardina, SK Das, V Minissale, S Plumari, V Greco - Physical Review C, 2017 - APS
We describe the propagation of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of
a Boltzmann transport approach. Nonperturbative interaction between heavy quarks and …

Tomography of the quark-gluon plasma by charm quarks

T Song, H Berrehrah, D Cabrera, JM Torres-Rincon… - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We study charm production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions by using the parton-
hadron-string dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. The initial charm quarks are produced …

Heavy quark production and properties of Quark–Gluon Plasma

X Dong, V Greco - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
Heavy quarks (HQ) are believed to have unique roles for studying QCD at finite temperature
and baryon density. By comparing precision measurements of HQ hadron production in …

Nonperturbative estimate of the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient

A Francis, O Kaczmarek, M Laine, T Neuhaus, H Ohno - Physical review D, 2015 - APS
We estimate the momentum diffusion coefficient of a heavy quark within a pure SU (3)
plasma at a temperature of about 1.5 T c. Large-scale Monte Carlo simulations on a series of …

Effective field theory approach to open heavy flavor production in heavy-ion collisions

ZB Kang, F Ringer, I Vitev - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We develop a version of Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) which includes
finite quark masses, as well as Glauber gluons that describe the interaction of collinear …