2019/06/30 by Sa Wang, Wei Dai, Ben-Wei Zhang +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #nucl-th #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7312-4
published as Eur.Phys.J. C79 (2019) no.9, 789 · 8 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2019/09/28 · arxiv updated 2019/10/01
The radial distribution of D0 mesons in jets probes the diffusion of charm quark relative to the jet axis and provides a new perspective to study the interaction mechanisms between heavy quarks and the medium in the nucleus-nucleus collisions. The in-medium parton propagations are described by a Monte Carlo transport model which uses the next-to-leading order (NLO) plus parton shower (PS) event generator SHERPA as input and includes elastic (collisional) and inelastic (radiative) interaction for heavy quarks as well as light partons. At low D0 meson pT, the radial distribution significantly shifts to larger radius indicating a strong diffusion effect which is consistent with the recent experimental data. We demonstrate that the angular deviation of charm quarks declines with pT and is very sensitive to the collisional more than radiative interaction at pT<5~GeV. As predictions, we present the D0 meson radial distribution in jets in p+p and 0-10% Au+Au collisions at √sNN=200~GeV at the RHIC, and also estimate the nuclear modification factor of charm jet in central Au+Au collisions at 200~GeV at the RHIC and central Pb+Pb collisions at 5.02~TeV at the LHC.