Multi-stage evolution of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma

Authors :: Vujanovic, G.
Angerami, A.
Bass, S. A.
Cao, S.
Chen, Y.
Coleman, J.
Cunqueiro, L.
Dai, T.
Du, L.
Ehlers, R.
Elfner, H.
Everett, D.
Fan, W.
Fries, R.
Gale, C.
He, Y.
Heffernan, M.
Heinz, U.
Jacak, B. V.
Jacobs, P. M.
Jeon, S.
Kauder, K.
Ke, W.
Khalaj, E.
Kordell II, M.
Kumar, A.
Luo, T.
Luzum, M.
Majumder, A.
McNelis, M.
Mulligan, J.
Nattrass, C.
Oliinychenko, D.
Pablos, D.
Pang, L. G.
Park, C.
Paquet, J. -F.
Putschke, J. H.
Roland, G.
Schenke, B.
Schwiebert, L.
Shen, C.
Silva, A.
Sirimanna, C.
Soltz, R. A.
Tachibana, Y.
Wang, X. -N.
Wolpert, R. L.
Xu, Y.
Yang, Z.
Publication Year :: 2020
Abstract: The interaction of heavy flavor with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is studied using JETSCAPE, a publicly available software package containing a framework for Monte Carlo event generators. Multi-stage (and multi-model) evolution of heavy quarks within JETSCAPE provides a cohesive description of heavy flavor quenching inside the QGP. As the parton shower develops, a model becomes active as soon as its kinematic region of validity is reached. Two combinations of heavy-flavor energy-loss models are explored within a realistic QGP medium, using parameters which were tuned to describe {\it light-flavor} partonic energy-loss.<br />Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, contribution to the Quark Matter 2019 proceedings