PHENIX heavy flavor highlights

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.

Study of Azimuthal Anisotropy of High-pT Charged Particles in Au Au Collisions at √sNN = 200 GeV with RHIC-PHENIX

We study the path length dependence of energy-loss in the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) by measuring the azimuthal anisotropy coefficient and transverse momentum ( p T ) spectra for charged hadrons in Au + Au at s N N = 200 GeV at the RHIC-PHENIX experiment. To estimate the strength of the energy-loss as a function of p T , we use the Δ p T which is the difference of p T which provide the same yields at in-plane and out-of-plane directions. The results indicate that there are different structures between low- p T and high- p T regions. At high- p T , the size of Δ p T increases as the centrality goes up. We also calculate the difference of the path length of in-plane and out-of-plane directions for each centrality. The difference of the path length increases along with the centrality and the tendency is the same with the Δ p T results.

Recent results from PHENIX at RHIC

The PHENIX experiment at the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) finished data taking in 2016. However, large datasets collected in different collision systems (p+p, p+A and A+A) at different energies (√sNN = 19-500 GeV) during the last years of the detector operation are actively analysed by the collaboration and bring a wealth of new experimental results. This paper reviews the most recent PHENIX results on the light flavour hadron production, yields and angular correlations of the direct photons in heavy-ion collisions as well as on the search for the onset of collectivity in high multiplicity p+p and p+A collisions.

PHENIX Experiment Highlights

Over sixteen yesrs of running the PHENIX experiment at RHIC has collected a wealth of data on proton-proton, proton-nucleus, and nucleusnucleus collisions at various collision energies. In this talk we present the most recent and exciting results from the PHENIX experiment.