Probing properties of hot and dense QCD matter with heavy flavor in the PHENIX experiment at RHIC

Nouicer, Rachid

doi:10.1051/epjconf/20159504046

Title: Probing properties of hot and dense QCD matter with heavy flavor in the PHENIX experiment at RHIC

Journal Article · Fri May 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · EPJ Web of Conferences (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20159504046· OSTI ID:1214096

Nouicer, Rachid ^[1]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). et al.

Hadrons carrying heavy quarks, i.e. charm or bottom, are important probes of the hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Heavy quark-antiquark pairs are mainly produced in initial hard scattering processes of partons. While some of the produced pairs form bound quarkonia, the vast majority hadronize into particles carrying open heavy flavor. Heavy quark production has been studied by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC via measurements of single leptons from semi-leptonic decays in both the electron channel at mid-rapidity and in the muon channel at forward rapidity. A large suppression and azimuthal anisotropy of single electrons have been observed in Au + Au collisions at 200 GeV. These results suggest a large energy loss and flow of heavy quarks in the hot, dense matter. The PHENIX experiment has also measured J/ψ production at 200 GeV in p + p, d + Au, Cu + Cu and Au + Au collisions, both at mid- and forward-rapidities, and additionally Cu + Au and U + U at forward-rapidities. In the most energetic collisions, more suppression is observed at forward rapidity than at central rapidity. This can be interpreted either as a sign of quark recombination, or as a hint of additional cold nuclear matter effects. The centrality dependence of nuclear modification factor, R_AA(p_T), for J/ψ in U + U collisions at √^sNN = 193 GeV shows a similar trend to the lighter systems, Au + Au and Cu + Cu, at similar energy 200 GeV.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Contributing Organization:: PHENIX Collaboration

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

OSTI ID:: 1214096

Report Number(s):: BNL-108263-2015-JA; KB0201021; TRN: US1500666

Journal Information:: EPJ Web of Conferences (Online), Vol. 95, Issue 19; Conference: 3rd International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Crete (Greece), 07 Jul - 8 Aug 2014; ISSN 2100-014X

Publisher:: EDP SciencesCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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