Anisotropic escape mechanism and elliptic flow of bottomonia

Abstract

We study the role of anisotropic escape in generating the elliptic flow of bottomonia produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. We implement temperature-dependent decay widths for the various bottomonium states, to calculate their survival probability when traversing through the anisotropic hot medium formed in non-central collisions. We employ the recently developed 3+1d quasiparticle anisotropic hydrodynamic simulation to model the space-time evolution of the quark-gluon plasma. We provide a quantitative prediction for transverse momentum dependence of bottomonium elliptic flow and nuclear modification factor for Pb$\,+\,$Pb collisions in $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV at the Large Hadron Collider.