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 …

Linearized Boltzmann transport model for jet propagation in the quark-gluon plasma: Heavy quark evolution

S Cao, T Luo, GY Qin, XN Wang - Physical Review C, 2016 - APS
A linearized Boltzmann transport (LBT) model coupled with hydrodynamical background is
established to describe the evolution of jet shower partons and medium excitations in high …

Energy loss, hadronization, and hadronic interactions of heavy flavors in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

S Cao, GY Qin, SA Bass - Physical Review C, 2015 - APS
We construct a theoretical framework to describe the evolution of heavy flavors produced in
relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The in-medium energy loss of heavy quarks is described …

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 …

Single electron yields from semileptonic charm and bottom hadron decays in collisions at GeV

A Adare, C Aidala, NN Ajitanand, Y Akiba, R Akimoto… - Physical review C, 2016 - APS
The PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured open heavy
flavor production in minimum bias Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 200 GeV via the yields of …

The hot QCD white paper: exploring the phases of QCD at RHIC and the LHC

Y Akiba, A Angerami, H Caines, A Frawley… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
The past decade has seen huge advances in experimental measurements made in heavy
ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and more recently at the Large …

Flavor hierarchy of jet quenching in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

WJ Xing, S Cao, GY Qin, H Xing - Physics Letters B, 2020 - Elsevier
Relativistic heavy-ion experiments have observed similar quenching effects for (prompt) D
mesons compared to charged hadrons for transverse momenta larger than 6-8 GeV, which …

Elliptic flow of electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decays in Au + Au collisions at , 62.4, and 39 GeV

L Adamczyk, JK Adkins, G Agakishiev, MM Aggarwal… - Physical review C, 2017 - APS
We present measurements of elliptic flow (v 2) of electrons from the decays of heavy-flavor
hadrons (e HF) by the STAR experiment. For Au+ Au collisions at s NN= 200 GeV we report …

Charm hadron azimuthal angular correlations in Au + Au collisions at  GeV from parton scatterings

H Wang, JH Chen, YG Ma, S Zhang - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2019 - Springer
The dynamic evolution of the charm hadron in hot quark matter was studied in the framework
of a multiphase transport (AMPT) model. We first reproduced the open charm hadron D_0 p …