Heavy flavor production in pp and AA collisions at the LHC

A refined version of a multi-step calculation of heavy-flavor observables in pp and AA collisions has been developed, based on pQCD at NLO accuracy followed by parton shower evolution to describe heavy-quark production and on the relativistic Langevin equation to describe their stochastic evolution in the QCD plasma. Then, hadronization is modeled through an implementation of fragmentation functions based on pQCD and constrained by image collider data. Results of our calculations can be compared with recent measurements performed at the LHC in Pb–Pb collisions at image: nuclear modification factor image of the image spectra at mid-rapidity of heavy-flavor decay electrons and of exclusively reconstructed open-charm mesons at different centralities, as well as their elliptic-flow image in semi-central collisions. To test the validity of our setup for such studies, its predictions are also checked against the image spectra measured in pp collisions at image and 2.76 TeV.