A large number of experimental discoveries especially in the heavy quarkonium sector that
did not meet the expectations of the until then very successful quark model led to a …

Since the discovery of the first charmed meson in 1976, many open-charm and open-bottom
hadrons were observed. In 2003 two narrow charm-strange states $ D_ {s0}^{\ast}(2317) …

The diffusion of heavy quarks through the quark–gluon plasma (QGP) as produced in high-
energy heavy-ion collisions has long been recognized as an excellent probe of its transport …

We report on broadly based systematic investigations of the modeling components for open
heavy-flavor diffusion and energy loss in strongly interacting matter in their application to …

We review the experimental and theoretical status of open heavy-flavor (HF) production in
high-energy nuclear collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large …

We report progress toward computing the heavy quark momentum diffusion coefficient from
the correlator of two chromoelectric fields attached to a Polyakov loop in pure SU (3) gauge …

We study charm production in Pb+ Pb collisions at s NN= 2.76 TeV in the parton-hadron-
string-dynamics (PHSD) transport approach and the charm dynamics in the partonic and …

Several transport models have been employed in recent years to analyze heavy-flavor
meson spectra in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Heavy-quark transport coefficients …

Semileptonic B s→ K ℓ ν decays provide an alternative b-decay channel to determine the
Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) matrix element| V ub| and to obtain a R-ratio to …

We study charm production in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions by using the parton-
hadron-string dynamics (PHSD) transport approach. The initial charm quarks are produced …