Quark recombination and heavy quark diffusion in hot nuclear matter Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We discuss resonance recombination for quarks and show that it is compatible with quark and hadron distributions in local thermal equilibrium. We then calculate realistic heavy quark phase space distributions in heavy ion collisions using Langevin simulations with non-perturbative T-matrix interactions in hydrodynamic backgrounds. We hadronize the heavy quarks on the critical hypersurface given by hydrodynamics after constructing a criterion for the relative recombination and fragmentation contributions. We discuss the influence of recombination and flow on the resulting heavy meson and single electron RAA and elliptic flow. We will also comment on the effect of diffusion of open heavy flavor mesons in the hadronic phase. 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

author list (cited authors)

  • Fries, R. J., He, M., & Rapp, R.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Fries, RJ||He, M||Rapp, R

publication date

  • January 2011