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Evidence of different Λc+ -baryon and D-meson elliptic flow in Pb+Pb collisions at sNN=5.36 TeV with ALICE at the LHC

D. A. H. Abdallah et al.

Phys. Rev. Lett. - Accepted 20 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/kvk5-1h1r

Abstract

The ALICE collaboration reports the azimuthal-anisotropy coefficient of prompt , , mesons and the first measurement of of prompt baryons in semicentral collisions at a center-of-mass energy per nucleon pair of = 5.36 TeV. The D mesons and baryons are reconstructed in their hadronic decays at midrapidity ($\yrange0.8$) in the transverse-momentum interval 0.5 < < 24 . Similar values are measured for and , while a hint of a difference (2.6σ) emerges between and mesons in the $1 <\pt < 5~\GeVc$ interval. A larger for baryons with respect to mesons is observed with 3.7σ significance for $4 < \pt < 12~\GeVc$, providing evidence for the partonic origin of charm-hadron and hadron formation via quark coalescence. This interpretation is further supported by comparisons with theoretical calculations of charm-quark transport in a hydrodynamically expanding medium.

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