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EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 364, 2026
XXXI International Conference on Ultra-Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions “Quark Matter 2025”
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| Article Number | 08018 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | Heavy Flavor & Quarkonia | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202636408018 | |
| Published online | 17 April 2026 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202636408018
Pre-equilibrium charm quark dynamics and their impact on D-Meson observables
1 Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines) Dhanbad, Jharkhand 826004, India
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240, USA
3 Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada
4 Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA
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Published online: 17 April 2026
Abstract
We study the impact of pre-equilibrium evolution on the charm quark Raa and v2 in Pb+Pb collisions at √sNN = 5.02 TeV. We observe that there is significant diffusion in the pre-equilibrium evolution, but there is no measurable effect on the final state observables.
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