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Title: The status of open heavy flavor production at RHIC

Conference ·

We discuss the calculation of open heavy flavor cross sections at RHIC and describe how the semileptonic decays of charm and bottom quarks can be separated.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
W-7405-ENG-48
OSTI ID:
1018801
Report Number(s):
LLNL-CONF-465254; TRN: US1103467
Resource Relation:
Journal Volume: 214; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: Presented at: Quarkonium 2010: Three Days of Quarkonium Production in pp and pA Collisions, Palaiseau, France, Jul 29 - Jul 31, 2010
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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