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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 122, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.172302
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- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11575070, 11775095, 11890711, 11375072]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-16-CE31-0019-02]
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Using the dilute-dense factorization in the color glass condensate framework, we investigate the azimuthal angular correlation between a heavy quarkonium and a charged light hadron in proton-nucleus collisions. We extract the second harmonic nu(2), commonly known as the elliptic flow, with the light hadron as the reference. This particular azimuthal angular correlation between a heavy meson and a light hadron was first measured at the LHC recently. The experimental results indicate that the elliptic flows for heavy flavor mesons (J/psi and D-0) are almost as large as those for light hadrons. Our calculation demonstrates that this result can be naturally interpreted as an initial state effect due to the interaction between the incoming partons from the proton and the dense gluons inside the target nucleus. Since the heavy quarkonium nu(2) exhibits a weak mass dependence according to our calculation, we predict that the heavy quarkonium Upsilon should have a similar elliptic flow as compared to that of the J/psi, which can be tested in future measurements.
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