Spectra and azimuthal harmonic of charmed mesons in Pb+Pb collisions at LHC energies

2025/03/06 by J.Y. Zhang, Huanjing Gong, Zhang, Jingzong +7
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2503.04411

Abstract

Using the recombination model (RM) extended to the heavy flavor scenario, we investigate the production of charmed mesons, i.e., D⁰, D_s⁺ and J/ψ, in Pb+Pb collisions at √s_NN=2.76 and 5.02 TeV at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) including the heavy flavor energy loss inside the hot and dense medium. Soft, semihard, and hard partons all play important roles in our model and are uniformly treated for all mesons produced. The resulting transverse momentum spectra and the second azimuthal harmonic v₂ for these mesons are presented and compared with the available experimental data. The good agreement provides strong support again that the quark recombination mechanism is a universal scheme of hadronization.

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