Open heavy flavor and other hard probes in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions
- In this thesis hard probes are studied in the partonic transport model BAMPS (Boltzmann Approach to MultiParton Scatterings). Employing Monte Carlo techniques, this model describes the 3+1 dimensional evolution of the quark gluon plasma phase in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions by propagating all particles in space and time and carrying out their collisions according to the Boltzmann equation. Since hard probes are produced in hard processes with a large momentum transfer, the value of the running coupling is small and their interactions should be describable within perturbative QCD (pQCD). This work focuses on open heavy flavor, but also addresses the suppression of light parton jets, in particular to highlight differences due to the mass. For light partons, radiative processes are the dominant contribution to their energy loss. For heavy quarks, we show that also binary interactions with a running coupling and an improved Debye screening matched to hard-thermal-loop calculations play an important role. Furthermore, the impact of the mass in radiative interactions, prominently named the dead cone effect, and the interplay with the Landau-Pomeranchuk-Migdal (LPM) effect are studied in great detail. Since the transport model BAMPS has access to all medium properties and the space time information of heavy quarks, it is the ideal tool to study the dissociation and regeneration of J/psi mesons, which is also investigated in this thesis.
Author: | Jan Uphoff |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-332910 |
Publisher: | Univ.-Bibliothek |
Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
Referee: | Carsten GreinerGND, Marcus BleicherORCiDGND |
Advisor: | Carsten Greiner |
Document Type: | Doctoral Thesis |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2014/03/18 |
Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Granting Institution: | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität |
Date of final exam: | 2014/03/06 |
Release Date: | 2014/03/18 |
Page Number: | XVIII, 208 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 337888817 |
Institutes: | Physik |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |