Heavy flavor $R_{\text{AA}}$ and $v_n$ in event-by-event viscous relativistic hydrodynamics

Abstract

Recently it has been shown that a realistic description of the medium via event-by-event viscous hydrodynamics plays an important role in the long-standing $R_{\text{AA}}$ vs. $v_2$ puzzle at high $p_T$. In this proceedings we begin to extend this approach to the heavy flavor sector by investigating the effects of full event-by-event fluctuating hydrodynamic backgrounds on the nuclear suppression factor and $v_2\{2\}$ of heavy flavor mesons and non-photonic electrons at intermediate to high $p_T$. We also show results for $v_3\{2\}$ of $B^0$ and D${}^0$ for PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s}=2.76$ TeV.

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the proceedings of the Strangeness in Quark Matter conference (June 27 to July 1, 2016, Berkeley, CA, USA)