Nuclear modification and azimuthal anisotropy of D mesons produced in relativistic heavy ion collision

TL;DR

This paper models charm quark energy loss in heavy ion collisions to predict the nuclear modification factor and azimuthal anisotropy of D mesons at LHC energies.

Contribution

It provides a phenomenological approach to calculate D meson suppression and flow in Pb-Pb collisions at LHC, incorporating charm quark energy loss.

Findings

Predicted nuclear modification factor R_AA for D mesons.

Estimated azimuthal anisotropy v_2 of D mesons.

Enhanced understanding of charm quark energy loss mechanisms.

Abstract

In this paper we present a phenomenological treatment of charm quark energy loss before fragmenting into D mesons and calculate nuclear modification factor, '$R_{AA}$' and azimuthal anisotropy, '$v_2$' of D mesons for lead on lead collision at LHC energy of $\sqrt{s}$=2.76 A TeV.