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Title: Single electron yields from semileptonic charm and bottom hadron decays in Au + Au collisions at s N N = 200 GeV

Journal Article · · Physical Review C
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The PHENIX Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured open heavy flavor production in minimum bias Au + Au collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV via the yields of electrons from semileptonic decays of charm and bottom hadrons. Previous heavy flavor electron measurements indicated substantial modification in the momentum distribution of the parent heavy quarks owing to the quark-gluon plasma created in these collisions. For the first time, using the PHENIX silicon vertex detector to measure precision displaced tracking, the relative contributions from charm and bottom hadrons to these electrons as a function of transverse momentum are measured in Au + Au collisions. We compare the fraction of electrons from bottom hadrons to previously published results extracted from electron-hadron correlations in p + p collisions at √SNN = 200 GeV and find the fractions to be similar within the large uncertainties on both measurements for pT > 4GeV/c. We use the bottom electron fractions in Au + Au and p + p along with the previously measured heavy flavor electron RAA to calculate the RAA for electrons from charm and bottom hadron decays separately. In conclusion, we find that electrons from bottom hadron decays are less suppressed than those from charm for the region 3 < pT < 4GeV/c.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Contributing Organization:
PHENIX Collaboration
Grant/Contract Number:
AC05-00OR22725; SC00112704
OSTI ID:
1324171
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1240490; OSTI ID: 1335477
Report Number(s):
BNL-112151-2016-JA; PRVCAN; KB0201022; ERKBP09
Journal Information:
Physical Review C, Vol. 93, Issue 3; ISSN 2469-9985
Publisher:
APSCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 36 works
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