Hydrodynamic description of D meson production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions *
Abstract
The large values and constituent-quark-number scaling of the elliptic flow of low-pT D mesons imply that charm quarks, initially produced through hard processes, might be partially thermalized through strong interactions with quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. To quantify the degree of thermalization of low-pT charm quarks, we compare the D0 meson spectra and elliptic flow from a hydrodynamic model to experimental data as well as transport model simulations. We use an effective charm chemical potential at the freeze-out temperature to account for the initial charm quark production from hard processes and assume that they are thermalized in the local comoving frame of the medium before freeze-out. D0 mesons are sampled statistically from the freeze-out hyper-surface of the expanding QGP as described by the event-by-event (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model CLVisc. Both the hydrodynamic and transport models can describe the elliptic flow of D0 mesons at PT < 3 GeV/c as measured in Au+Au collisions at $$sqrts_{NN} = 200$$ GeV. Though the experimental data on spectra are consistent with the hydrodynamic result at small pT ~ 1 GeV/c, they deviate from the hydrodynamic model at high transverse momentum, GeV/c. The diffusion and parton energy loss mechanisms in the transport model can describe the measured spectra reasonably well within the theoretical uncertainty. Finally, our comparative study indicates that charm quarks only approach local thermal equilibrium at small pT, even though they acquire sizable elliptic flow comparable to light-quark hadrons at both small and intermediate pT.
- Authors:
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- Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Central China Normal University, Wuhan (China); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP); National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); National Science Foundation (NSF)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1836264
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 2020YFE0202002; 11935007; 11221504; 11861131009; 12075098; 11890714; ACI-1550228; OAC-2004571
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Chinese Physics C, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 45; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1674-1137
- Publisher:
- IOP Publishing
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
Citation Formats
Ding, Chi, Ke, Wei-Yao, Pang, Long-Gang, and Wang, Xin-Nian. Hydrodynamic description of D meson production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions *. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1088/1674-1137/abf645.
Ding, Chi, Ke, Wei-Yao, Pang, Long-Gang, & Wang, Xin-Nian. Hydrodynamic description of D meson production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions *. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/abf645
Ding, Chi, Ke, Wei-Yao, Pang, Long-Gang, and Wang, Xin-Nian. Tue .
"Hydrodynamic description of D meson production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions *". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/abf645. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1836264.
@article{osti_1836264,
title = {Hydrodynamic description of D meson production in high-energy heavy-ion collisions *},
author = {Ding, Chi and Ke, Wei-Yao and Pang, Long-Gang and Wang, Xin-Nian},
abstractNote = {The large values and constituent-quark-number scaling of the elliptic flow of low-pT D mesons imply that charm quarks, initially produced through hard processes, might be partially thermalized through strong interactions with quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. To quantify the degree of thermalization of low-pT charm quarks, we compare the D0 meson spectra and elliptic flow from a hydrodynamic model to experimental data as well as transport model simulations. We use an effective charm chemical potential at the freeze-out temperature to account for the initial charm quark production from hard processes and assume that they are thermalized in the local comoving frame of the medium before freeze-out. D0 mesons are sampled statistically from the freeze-out hyper-surface of the expanding QGP as described by the event-by-event (3+1)D viscous hydrodynamic model CLVisc. Both the hydrodynamic and transport models can describe the elliptic flow of D0 mesons at PT < 3 GeV/c as measured in Au+Au collisions at $sqrts_{NN} = 200$ GeV. Though the experimental data on spectra are consistent with the hydrodynamic result at small pT ~ 1 GeV/c, they deviate from the hydrodynamic model at high transverse momentum, GeV/c. The diffusion and parton energy loss mechanisms in the transport model can describe the measured spectra reasonably well within the theoretical uncertainty. Finally, our comparative study indicates that charm quarks only approach local thermal equilibrium at small pT, even though they acquire sizable elliptic flow comparable to light-quark hadrons at both small and intermediate pT.},
doi = {10.1088/1674-1137/abf645},
journal = {Chinese Physics C, High Energy Physics and Nuclear Physics},
number = 7,
volume = 45,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Tue Jan 05 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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