Anisotropic Flows of Charmonium in the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Chenyu Li and Baoyi Chen ()
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Chenyu Li: Culver Academies, Academy Rd., Culver, IN 46511, USA
Baoyi Chen: Department of Physics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300354, China

Mathematics, 2022, vol. 10, issue 22, 1-14

Abstract: We review recent studies about anisotropic flows ( v 1 , v 2 , v 3 ) of charmonium in the quark-gluon plasma produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Collective flows of the bulk medium are developed due to the anisotropic pressure gradient of the medium. Strongly coupled with the bulk medium, charm quarks carry collective flows from the expanding medium, which will be inherited by the regenerated charmonium via the coalescence process. In event-by-event collisions where nucleon positions fluctuate from the smooth distribution, there is triangularity in the medium initial energy density. Triangular flows of the bulk medium and heavy flavor particles can be developed due to the initial fluctuations. In the longitudinal direction, the rapidity-odd distribution of the initial energy density is induced by the rotation of the medium in non-central heavy-ion collisions. Charmonium suffers biased dissociation along positive and negative x -directions in forward (backward) rapidity. The directed flow of charmonium becomes non-zero. The directed, elliptic and triangular flows ( v 1 , v 2 , v 3 ) of charmonium come from the anisotropic initial distributions of the medium energy density in the transverse and longitudinal directions.

Keywords: relativistic heavy-ion collisions; heavy quarkonium; quark-gluon plasma; collective flows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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