Heavy quark potential and thermal charm production in heavy-ion collisions

Autor:	Song, Taesoo, Zhao, Jiaxing, Grishmanovskii, Ilia
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Nuclear Theory High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	Heavy quark mass in QGP is related to the heavy quark potential at a large distance. In this study we test three different heavy quark potentials, namely, the free energy, the internal energy of the heavy quark pair in QGP, and the unscreened potential, which was recently proposed by the HotQCD Collaboration, through the thermal production of charm quarks in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. We find that the free energy potential overestimates charm production in heavy-ion collisions at the LHC, while the unscreened potential produces results closest to the experimental data from the ALICE Collaboration among the three potentials. Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07383 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv