https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-10802-2
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Event-shape engineering analysis of D meson in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions
1
Department of Physics and Astronomy “E. Majorana”, University of Catania, Via S. Sofia 64, I-95123, Catania, Italy
2
Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, INFN-LNS, Via S. Sofia 62, I-95123, Catania, Italy
3
School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Particle Physics and Cosmology, and Key Laboratory for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (MOE), Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 200240, Shanghai, China
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salvatore.plumari@dfa.unict.it
Received:
7
June
2022
Accepted:
14
September
2022
Published online:
22
September
2022
We describe the propagation of charm quarks in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) by means of an event-by-event transport approach. In our calculations the non-perturbative interaction between heavy quarks and light partons has been taken into account through a quasi-particle approach with thermal light quark masses tuned to reproduce lQCD thermodynamics. We found that the flow observables 
and 
of D mesons are comparable with the experimental measurements for Pb + Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV in different ranges of centrality selections. The results are analyzed with event-shape engineering technique. The comparison of the anisotropic flow coefficients 
with experimental data show a quite good agreement with experimental data for different flow vector 
selections, which confirms the strong coupling between charm quarks and light quarks in the QCD matter. Furthermore, we present here a novel study of the event-by-event correlations between flow harmonics of D mesons and soft hadrons at LHC energy with the event-shape engineering technique that can put further constraints on heavy quark transport coefficients toward a solid comparison between the phenomenological determination and the lattice QCD calculations.
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