Open Heavy Flavors in Nuclear Collisions: Theory Overview

Pol-Bernard Gossiaux (1)

1 SUBATECH - Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associées

I review the current status and some prospects of theoretical studies on open heavy flavor physics in nuclear collisions at RHIC and LHC energies.

Mots clés: heavy quarks; quark gluon plasma; ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions; heavy quark: suppression; nucleus nucleus: scattering; Brookhaven RHIC Coll; CERN LHC Coll; heavy quark: energy loss; transport theory; heavy quark: elliptic flow; quantum chromodynamics: matter; flow: anisotropy; magnetic field: effect; diffusion; jet: quenching

Domaines: Physique Nucléaire Théorique [nucl-th]; Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]; Physique Nucléaire Expérimentale [nucl-ex]

Pol-Bernard Gossiaux. Open Heavy Flavors in Nuclear Collisions: Theory Overview. 27th International Conference on Ultrarelativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions, May 2018, Venice, Italy. pp.113-119, ⟨10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2018.10.076⟩. ⟨hal-02058874⟩