Open Heavy Flavor Production in Hot QCD Matter at CERN LHC

Heavy flavor production is a sensitive probe of the initial gluon density in the nucleon and is modified by the entire evolution of the hot quark and gluon medium created in high-energy nucleus–nucleus collisions. Besides, it is a process that can be calculated by perturbative QCD because of their large mass. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC studied the heavy flavor productions for a broad momentum and rapidity ranges using single leptons from the semileptonic decay of charm and bottom hadrons, and dileptons from [Formula: see text] decays in [Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]A, and Au [Formula: see text] Au collisions at [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]200[Formula: see text]GeV. In these proceedings, the recent experimental results in [Formula: see text], Au [Formula: see text] Au, and the small collision systems are presented and the heavy flavor productions and their modifications are discussed.

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Strong color fields and heavy flavor production

Physical Review C ◽

10.1103/physrevc.82.034912 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 82 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

I. Bautista ◽

C. Pajares

Keyword(s):

Heavy Flavor ◽

Heavy Flavor Production

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Effect of Hadron Contamination on Dielectron Signal Reconstruction in Heavy Flavor Production Measurements

Advances in High Energy Physics ◽

10.1155/2015/385205 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 ◽

pp. 1-12 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniel Kikoła

Keyword(s):

Time Projection Chamber ◽

Signal Reconstruction ◽

Particle Identification ◽

Heavy Flavor ◽

Reconstruction Process ◽

Identification Process ◽

Heavy Flavor Production ◽

Time Projection

Dielectron signal reconstruction is an important tool for heavy flavor measurements because of its trigger feasibility and its relatively straightforward particle identification process. However, in the case of time projection chamber detectors, some hadron contamination is unavoidable, even if additional means are used to improve the particle identification process. In this paper, we investigate the effects of hadron (protons, pions, and kaons) contamination on the dielectron signal reconstruction process in the measurement ofJ/ψand electrons from heavy flavor hadron decays.

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Heavy flavor production with final state interaction

10.1063/1.32395 ◽

1981 ◽

Author(s):

B. Margolis

Keyword(s):

Final State Interaction ◽

State Interaction ◽

Heavy Flavor ◽

Final State ◽

Heavy Flavor Production

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PHENIX Measurements of Heavy Flavor in Small Systems

EPJ Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/epjconf/201817201001 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 172 ◽

pp. 01001

Author(s):

Alexandre Lebedev

Keyword(s):

Dense Matter ◽

High Energy ◽

Heavy Flavor ◽

Small Systems ◽

Rapidity Range ◽

Nuclear Collisions ◽

Phenix Experiment ◽

Heavy Flavor Production

The study of heavy flavor production in proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions is a sensitive probe of the hot and dense matter created in such collisions. Installation of silicon vertex detectors in the PHENIX experiment, and increased performance of the BNL RHIC collider allowed collection of large amount of data on heavy flavor production in small colliding systems. In this talk we will present recent PHENIX results on open heavy flavor and quarkonia production in p+p, p+A, d+A, and He3+A colliding systems in a broad rapidity range, and discuss how these measurements help us to better understand all stages of nuclear collisions at high energy.

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