Study of Energy Loss Models of Heavy Flavor Quarks in the Quark-Gluon Plasma

• Grant number: 23/14456-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: February 01, 2024
• End date: January 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Nuclear Physics
• Principal Investigator: Fernando Silveira Navarra
• Grantee: Celsina dos Santos Azevedo Neta
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 20/04867-2 - High energy physics and instrumentation with the LHC-CERN, AP.ESP

Abstract

This work aims to study phenomenologically the influence of the medium formed in collisions between heavy ions in the propagation of jets arising from the fragmentation of heavy quarks, charm and beauty. The project will start from a partonic propagation model in a non-homogeneous medium that expands hydrodynamically, which however does not consider the mass of the partons. The combination of these two models was carried out in previous works by the group and the addition of effects due to the mass of the partons will allow us to study a whole new series of observables that correspond to jets generated by heavy quarks, which have been the object of numerous experimental measurements but with few models that seek to describe the behavior of these observables.