Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
8182513 Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings 2017 4 Pages PDF
Abstract
Due to large mass, heavy quarks are produced primarily at early stages of heavy-ion collisions, and therefore experience the full evolution of the system and carry information about the extent of thermalization of the QGP. Azimuthal anisotropy parameters (vn) of charm and bottom hadrons provide unique information about the path length dependent interactions between heavy quarks and the medium. To what extent heavy quarks at low pT flow with the medium is a good measure of the interaction strength. At high pT, v2 and v3 from path length dependent energy loss provide a powerful tool to study heavy quark energy loss mechanisms. With the large statistics PbPb samples at 5.02 TeV collected by the CMS detector during the 2015 LHC run, azimuthal anisotropy v2 and v3 of D0 meson is measured over a wide pT range and at different centralities. In this paper, the most recent results of prompt D0 meson vn parameters are presented, and compared to the charged hadron vn at the same energy and the latest theoretical calculations.
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