2019/04/18 by Dinesh Kumar Srivastava, Srivastava, Dinesh K., Rupa Chatterjee +1
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1904.08652
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We study the production dynamics of charm quarks in the parton cascade model\nfor relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. The model is\neminently suited for a study of the pre-equilibrium dynamics of charm quarks at\nmodest transverse momenta. The treatment is motivated by QCD parton picture and\ndescribes the dynamics of an ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collision in terms of\ncascading partons which undergo scattering and multiplication while\npropagating. We find considerable suppression of charm quarks production in\nAA collisions compared to those for pp collisions at the same\n\√s_ text NN scaled by number of collisions. This may be important\nfor an accurate determination of energy loss suffered by charm quarks while\ntraversing the thermalized quark gluon plasma.\n