Charm and beauty quarks in the initial stages of proton-ion collisions

by Gabriele Parisi (Catania University)

Thursday May 15, 2025, 2:00 PM → 3:00 PM Europe/Paris

Salle 1180, bâtiment E2 (Salle des séminaires )

In this talk I will discuss the Physics of Heavy Ion Collisions, and more specifically the dynamics of Heavy Quarks in the initial gluon-dominated phase of such collisions, called Glasma. After a brief introduction around the main motivations for such studies, and on their relevance for QCD, I will mention the state-of-the-art understanding of each phase of Heavy Ion Collisions. I will then move on to discuss the evolution of Heavy Quarks in Glasma, highlighting the effect of such phase on the color de-correlation of Heavy Quark pairs, as shown by numerical studies in a 2+1D framework. Finally, moving on to 3+1D studies, I discuss the effect of rapidity-dependent fluctuations on the momentum shift of static heavy quarks.