Momentum dependence of drag coefficients and heavy flavour suppression in quark gluon plasma
Jun, 2011
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Abstract: (arXiv)
The momentum dependence of the drag coefficient of heavy quarks propagating through quark gluon plasma (QGP) has been evaluated. The results have been used to estimate the nuclear suppression factor of charm and bottom quarks in QGP. We observe that the momentum dependence of the transport coefficients plays crucial role in the suppression of the heavy quarks and consequently in discerning the properties of QGP using heavy flavours as a probe. We show that the large suppression of the heavy quarks observed at RHIC and LHC is predominantly due to the radiative losses. The suppression of in Pb+Pb collisions at LHC energy - recently measured by the ALICE collaboration has also been studied.- 24.85.+p
- 25.75.Nq
- 12.38.Mh
- quark gluon: plasma
- heavy quark: suppression
- momentum dependence
- CERN LHC Coll
- Brookhaven RHIC Coll
- ALICE
- heavy ion: scattering
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