Heavy-flavor dynamics in relativistic p-Pb collisions at $\sqrt{S_{NN}}=5.02$ TeV

We investigate the heavy flavor dynamics in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) medium created in p-Pb collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In the (3+1)-dimensional viscous hydrodynamcis model describing QGP medium, the dynamics of heavy quarks are studied in an improved Langevin framework incorporating both collisional and radiative energy loss. The hadronization of heavy quarks is described with a hybrid model of fragmentation and recombination. We find that the in-medium evolution of charm quarks raises the D meson $R_{pPb}$ at low transverse momenta while it further suppresses the D meson $R_{pPb}$ at intermediate momenta. Our minimal bias calculation is in good agreement with the experimental data. In addition, the elliptic flow of D meson is calculated, showing a much smaller D meson $v_2$ compared with the light hadrons. This observation hints that the coupling between heavy quarks and the medium being incomplete due to the reduced temperature and medium size.

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