https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3336-6
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Heavy flavors in heavy-ion collisions: quenching, flow and correlations
Sezione di Torino, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, via P.Giuria 1, 10125, Turin, Italy
* e-mail: beraudo@to.infn.it
Received:
23
October
2014
Accepted:
27
February
2015
Published online:
14
March
2015
We present results for the quenching, elliptic flow and azimuthal correlations of heavy-flavor particles in high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions obtained through the POWLANG transport setup, developed in the past to study the propagation of heavy quarks in the Quark–Gluon Plasma and here extended to include a modeling of their hadronization in the presence of a medium. Hadronization is described as occurring via the fragmentation of strings with endpoints given by the heavy (anti-) quark 
and a thermal parton 
from the medium. The flow of the light quarks is shown to affect significantly the 
and 
of the final 
mesons, leading to a better agreement with the experimental data. The approach allows also predictions for the angular correlation between heavy-flavor hadrons (or their decay electrons) and the charged particles produced in the fragmentation of the heavy-quark strings.
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