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Measurement of D-meson production and flow in Pb–Pb collisions with ALICE at the LHC

Fabio Catalano

DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino 10129, Italy

INFN Sezione di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, Torino 10125, Italy

E-mail Address: fabio.catalano@cern.ch

on behalf of the ALICE Collaboration.

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218301320400042Cited by:0 (Source: Crossref)

This article is part of the issue:

Special Issue on New Frontiers in Physics — Selected Papers of ICNFP 2019
Guest Editors: L. Bravina, S. Kabana, V. Volkova and V. I. Zakharov

Abstract

Open-charmed mesons are unique tools to study the properties of the Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) formed in ultra-relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions. The nuclear modification factor ( $R_{AA}$ $R_{AA}$ ) and elliptic flow ( $v_{2}$ $v_{2}$ ) of $D^{0}$ $D^{0}$ , $D^{+}$ $D^{+}$ , $D^{* +}$ $D^{* +}$ , and $D_{s}^{+}$ $D_{s}^{+}$ mesons were measured by the ALICE Collaboration in Pb–Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV. The D-meson $R_{AA}$ $R_{AA}$ provides information on the charm-quark interactions with the medium and the charm-quark energy loss. The D-meson elliptic flow at low transverse momentum ( $p_{T}$ $p_{T}$ ) gives insight into the participation of charm quarks in the collective expansion of the system and their possible in-medium thermalization. At high $p_{T}$ $p_{T}$ , the $v_{2}$ $v_{2}$ is sensitive to the path-length dependence of parton energy loss. The role of the recombination mechanism is investigated measuring the $p_{T}$ $p_{T}$ -differential yield ratios between D-meson species with and without strange-quark content. Finally, the coupling of charm quarks to light quarks of the underlying medium is examined applying the Event-Shape Engineering (ESE) technique to the nonstrange D-meson elliptic flow.

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Received 17 February 2020

Accepted 6 November 2020

Published: 17 December 2020

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