Heavy Flavor Production in STAR
Abstract
In this contribution, the STAR collaboration at RHIC reports on measurements related to heavy flavor production. We present results from D meson production, and from indirect reconstruction of heavy flavor via semi-leptonic decays, including low transverse momentum muons and the inclusive yield of non-photonic electrons. We focus on the non-photonic electrons, and present results over a broad range of transverse momenta (1.2 < pT < 10 Gev-c) in p+p, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV. The non-photonic electron yield exhibits unexpectedly large suppression in central Au+Au collisions at high pT, suggesting substantial heavy quark energy loss in hot QCD matter.
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@article{arxiv.nucl-ex/0608028,
title = {Heavy Flavor Production in STAR},
author = {Manuel Calderon de la Barca Sanchez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nucl-ex/0608028},
year = {2019}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures. Proceedings for "DIS 2006", XIV International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering