Heavy quark dynamics in the QGP: RAA and v2 from RHIC to LHC

We study the stochastic dynamics of c and b quarks in the hot plasma produced in nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC and LHC, providing results for the nuclear modification factor RAA and the elliptic flow coefficient v2 of the single-electron spectra arising from their semi-leptonic decays. The initial pairs are generated using the POWHEG code, implementing pQCD at NLO. For the propagation in the plasma we develop a relativistic Langevin equation (solved in a medium described by hydrodynamics) whose transport coefficients are evaluated through a first-principle calculation. Finally, at Tc, the heavy quarks are made to hadronize and decay into electrons: the resulting spectra are then compared with RHIC results. Predictions for LHC are also attempted.