Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

Open heavy flavor in QCD matter and in nuclear collisions

F Prino, R Rapp - Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
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 …

Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus–nucleus collisions at RHIC: experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration

K Adcox, SS Adler, S Afanasiev, C Aidala… - Nuclear Physics A, 2005 - Elsevier
Extensive experimental data from high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions were recorded
using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The comprehensive …

How much do heavy quarks thermalize in a heavy ion collision?

GD Moore, D Teaney - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2005 - APS
We investigate the thermalization of charm quarks in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. To
this end, we calculate the diffusion coefficient in the perturbative quark gluon plasma and …

PHENIX detector overview

K Adcox, SS Adler, M Aizama, NN Ajitanand… - Nuclear Instruments and …, 2003 - Elsevier
The PHENIX detector is designed to perform a broad study of A–A, p–A, and p–p collisions
to investigate nuclear matter under extreme conditions. A wide variety of probes, sensitive to …

Medium-induced gluon radiation off massive quarks fills the dead cone

N Armesto, CA Salgado, UA Wiedemann - Physical Review D, 2004 - APS
We calculate the transverse momentum dependence of the medium-induced gluon energy
distribution radiated off massive quarks in spatially extended QCD matter. In the absence of …

[HTML][HTML] Quark coalescence for charmed mesons in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

V Greco, CM Ko, R Rapp - Physics Letters B, 2004 - Elsevier
We investigate effects of charm-quark interactions in a quark–gluon plasma on the
production of D and J/ψ mesons in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Employing a previously …

Heavy-quark production in + and energy loss and flow of heavy quarks in Au + Au collisions at GeV

A Adare, S Afanasiev, C Aidala, NN Ajitanand… - Physical Review C …, 2011 - APS
Transverse momentum spectra of electrons (p T e) from semileptonic weak decays of heavy-
flavor mesons in the range of 0.3< p T e< 9.0 GeV/c have been measured at midrapidity …

Heavy quark radiative energy loss in QCD matter

M Djordjevic, M Gyulassy - Nuclear Physics A, 2004 - Elsevier
Heavy quark medium induced radiative energy loss is derived to all orders in opacity,(L/λg)
n. The analytic expression generalizes the GLV opacity expansion for massless quanta to …

Detailed measurement of the pair continuum in and collisions at GeV and implications for direct photon production

A Adare, S Afanasiev, C Aidala, NN Ajitanand… - Physical Review C …, 2010 - APS
PHENIX has measured the e+ e-pair continuum in s NN= 200 GeV Au+ Au and p+ p
collisions over a wide range of mass and transverse momenta. The e+ e-yield is compared …