TY  - JOUR
A1  - Torrieri, Giorgio
A1  - Noronha, Jorge
T1  - Flavoring the quark–gluon plasma with charm
T2  - Physics Letters B
N2  - We demonstrate that a Quark–Gluon Plasma (QGP) with a dilute admixture of heavy quarks has, in general, a lower speed of sound than a “pure” QGP without effects from heavy flavors. The change in the speed of sound is sensitive to the details of the theory, making the hydrodynamic response to “flavoring” a sensitive probe of the underlying microscopic dynamics. We suggest that this effect may be measured in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions by relating the event-by-event number of charm quarks to flow observables such as the average transverse momentum.
KW  - Quark–gluon plasma
KW  - Heavy flavor
KW  - Polyakov loops
KW  - Non-perturbative QCD
KW  - Particle multiplicity
KW  - Deconfinement
Y1  - 2010
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/76507
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-765075
SN  - 0370-2693
VL  - 690
IS  - 5
SP  - 477
EP  - 482
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -