Understanding mass hierarchy in different energy loss mechanisms through heavy flavor data

Institute of Physics Belgrade, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

^* e-mail: bojanab@ipb.ac.rs

Published online: 1 March 2023

Abstract

The theoretical analysis of experimental observations, such as the mass hierarchy effect, often neglects some ingredients, which may have a significant impact. The forthcoming measurements at RHIC and LHC will generate heavy flavor data with unprecedented precision, providing an opportunity to utilize high-p_⊥ heavy flavor data to analyze the interaction mechanisms in QGP. To this end, we use our recently developed DREENA framework based on the dynamical energy loss formalism. We present: i) How to disentangle the signature of different interaction mechanisms (radiative and collisional energy losses) at the same dataset. ii) Novel observables susceptible to these different mechanisms to be tested by future high-precision measurements. iii) Analytical and numerical extraction of the mass hierarchy effect in energy losses through this observable.