Strong color fields and heavy flavor production

TL;DR

This paper explores how strong color fields from clustered color sources influence heavy flavor production and nuclear modification factors in high-energy collisions.

Contribution

It introduces a framework based on color source clustering to analyze soft partonic interactions affecting heavy flavor yields.

Findings

Color fields significantly impact heavy flavor production.

Nuclear modification factors are altered by strong color fields.

The model explains observed suppression patterns.

Abstract

The clustering of color sources provides a natural framework for soft partonic interactions producing strong color fields. We study the consequences of these color fields in the production of heavy flavor and the behavior of the nuclear modification factor.