Charm production: constraints to transport models and charm diffusion coefficient with ALICE

2022/07/28 by Vermunt, Luuk
#FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.14154

Abstract

In this contribution, the nuclear modification factor and azimuthal anisotropy of prompt charm mesons and baryons in Pb-Pb collisions at √(s_NN)=5.02 TeV by the ALICE Collaboration are presented. Heavy quarks are a very suitable probe to investigate the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions, since they are mainly produced in hard-scattering processes and hence in shorter timescales compared to the QGP. Measurements of charm-hadron production in nucleus-nucleus collisions are therefore useful to study the properties of the in-medium charm-quark energy loss via the comparison with theoretical models. Models describing the heavy-flavour transport and energy loss in a hydrodynamically expanding QGP require also a precise modelling of the in-medium hadronisation of heavy quarks, which is investigated via the measurement of prompt D_s⁺ mesons and Λ_c⁺ baryons.

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