Study of Charm and Beauty using electron-D{sup 0} azimuthal correlations in the STAR experiment at RHIC

Journal Article · Mon May 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3575067· OSTI ID:21516916

Kabana, Sonia ^[1]

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1. Laboratoire de physique subatomique et des technologies associees (SUBATECH), 4 rue Alfred Kastler, 44307 Nantes cedex 3 (France)

The energy loss of heavy quarks in the hot and dense matter created in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC, can be used to probe the properties of the medium. Both charm and beauty quarks contribute to the non-photonic electrons through their semi-leptonic decays. It is essential to determine experimentally the relative contributions of charm and beauty quarks to understand the observed suppression of non-photonic electrons at high p{sub T} in central Au+Au collisions. The azimuthal angular correlations of non-photonic electrons with hadrons as well as with the reconstructed D{sup 0} allow to disentangle the contributions of charm and beauty to the electron spectrum. We discuss the STAR measurement of non-photonic electron-D{sup 0} and non-photonic electron-hadron azimuthal correlations in p+p collisions at 200 GeV and explore the consequences for the heavy flavour suppression in heavy ion collisions at RHIC.

• OSTI ID: 21516916
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1343, Issue 1; Conference: QCHS 9: 9. international conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum, Madrid (Spain), 30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3575067; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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