The production of heavy quarks (charm and beauty) provides unique insights into the transport properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions. Experimentally, the nuclear modification factor ${{R}_{\rm AA}}$ and the azimuthal anisotropy coefficient ${v}_{\rm 2}$ of heavy-flavor mesons are powerful observables to study the medium-related effects, such as energy loss and collectivity, on the heavy quark propagation through the QGP evolution. The latest measurements of the prompt and non-prompt open heavy-flavor hadrons allow a systematic comparison of the transport behaviors probed by charm and beauty quarks. In this work we make such an attempt utilizing our recently developed framework. By performing a quantitative investigation of ${{R}_{\rm AA}}$ and ${v}_{\rm 2}$, it is found that both charm and beauty quarks are efficient probes to capture the dynamical features of QGP, in particular the resulting mass hierarchy for the energy loss and azimuthal anisotropy, which are well inherited by the various $D/B$-meson species. Moreover, our calculations can describe simultaneously ${{R}_{\rm AA}}$ and ${v}_{\rm 2}$ data for the prompt and non-prompt $D^{0}$ mesons in central ($0-10\%$) and semi-central ($30-50\%$) Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=5.02~{\rm TeV}$. The predictions for $B$-meson observables for upcoming experimental tests are also made down to the low momentum region.
We consider a U(5)-Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with flavor-dependent couplings constants obtained from quark-antiquark polarization to investigate the role of the heavy quarks for light constituent quarks and mesons. A quantum mixing, due to the different representations of the flavor group needed to defined quarks and mesons, lead to charm and beauty sea quark contributions to properties of the light quark sector. For a given fitting procedure for the parameters of the model, the charm and beauty quark effective masses are freely varied from very small values to very large values (infinite). The…
The Dynamics of Beauty & Charm Hadrons and top quarks in the Era of the LHCb & Belle II and ATLAS/CMS, Motto: Non-perturbative QCD \& Many-body Final States
We investigate the decay properties of some beauty and charm mesons with a phenomenological potential model. First, we consider the nonrelativistic Hamiltonian of the mesonic system with Coulomb plus exponential terms and study the wave function and the energy of the system using the variational approach. Thereby, we compute the masses, the decay constants, the leptonic branching fractions of heavy-light mesons and the mixing mass parameter $Δ{m_{B_q}}$. We study the radiative leptonic decay widths of ${D_s} \to γ\ell \bar ν$, ${D^ - } \to γ\ell \bar ν$ and the semileptonic decay widths of ${\…
We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the decay constants for both the pseudoscalar and vector beauty-charmed mesons $B_{c}$ and $B^*_{c}$ in nonrelativistic QCD effective theory. Explicit NNLO calculation verified that the $B_c$ decay constant from pseudoscalar current is identical with the $B_c$ decay constant from axial-vector current. The NNLO result for the vector decay constant of $B^*_{c}$ meson is novel. Combined with the latest extraction of nonrelativistic QCD long-distance matrix elements of $B_c$ meson, we give the branching ratios of leptonic decay…
The effective theory for heavy quarks has additional symmetries with respect to QCD, which relate charm and beauty hadron masses. Assuming the spectrum of charmed particles, we predicted in a previous work the masses of some beauty particles. The predictions of the Lambda_b mass, M(Lambda_b)=5630 MeV, and of the B_s mass, M(B_s)=5379 MeV, are in agreement with present experimental data. We continue this work using recent experimental data on charm hadron masses. The results are: M(Sigma_b)=5822+-6 MeV, M(Sigma_b*)-M(Sigma_b)=33+-3 MeV, M(Omega_b)=6080+-7 MeV, M(Omega_b*)-M(Omega_b)=32+-3 MeV, …
Heavy Quark Fragmentation Functions for D-wave Quarkonium and Charmed Beauty Mesons
在大横动量区，高能$e^+e^-$和强子碰撞中，部分子碎裂控制了重-重束缚态如粲偶素、底偶素和$\bar bc$介子的产生.在强耦合常数和非相对论展开下，我们计算了重夸克碎裂成D波夸克偶素和$\bar bc$介子的前序函数。在$\bar b c$介子的情况下，它的一组D波状态预计将低于开放味阈值。$\bar b$反夸克分裂为D波$\bar b c$介子的总碎裂几率约为$2 \times 10^{-5}$，这意味着总赝标基态$B_c$中只有2%来自这些轨道激发态的级联.
Hadronic Production of S-wave and P-wave Charmed Beauty Mesons via Heavy Quark Fragmentation
在强子对撞机上，具有大横向动量的$(\bar bc)$介子的主要产生机制是部分子碎裂。计算了Tevatron中通过底反夸克直接碎裂和Altarelli-Parisi诱导胶子碎裂产生S波和P波$(\bar b c)$介子的速率和横动量谱.由于所有的径向和轨道激发的$(\bar b c)$介子低于$BD$味阈值将级联到赝标基态$B_c$通过电磁和/或强子跃迁，他们都有助于包括生产$B_c$。激发S波和P波态对$B_c$的贡献分别为58%和23%，因此是显著的.
