Nuclear modification factor for light and heavy flavors within pQCD and recent data from the LHC
B. G. Zakharov
Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the RAS
117334 Moscow, Russia
Abstract
We examine the flavor dependence
of the nuclear modification factor RAA in the pQCD
calculations at LHC energies. The computations are performed accounting for
radiative and collisional
parton energy loss with running coupling constant.
Our results show that the recent LHC data on the RAA for
charged hadrons, D-mesons, and non-photonic
electrons agree reasonably with
the pQCD picture of the parton energy loss with
the dominating contribution from the radiative mechanism.