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Charmonia suppression has been considered as a smoking gun signature of quark-gluon plasma. However, the Large Hadron Collider has observed a lower degree of suppression as compared to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider energies, due to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-19 Raghunath Sahoo

Heavy Quark Production in Heavy Ion Colliders

We describe updated calculations of $Q \bar Q$ production in $pp$ and $\pi^- p$ interactions. We compare these results to total cross section data and discuss how the baseline cross sections extrapolate to heavy ion collider energies. We…

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Recent results on heavy flavour in small and large systems from ALICE

Heavy-flavour hadrons, containing open or hidden charm and beauty flavours, are considered as hard probes of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), which is a hot and dense phase state of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) matter. Production of heavy…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-10-26 Chun-Lu Huang

Strangeness and charm in quark-gluon hadronization

This dissertation presents a theoretical study of soft hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. We explore the principles governing the hadronization of the expanding QGP fireball, and to understand its properties. Much of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-26 Michal Petran

Quarkonium Production in PHENIX

Quarkonia provide a sensitive probe of the properties of the hot dense medium created in high energy heavy ion collisions. Hard scattering processes result in the production of heavy quark pairs that interact with the collision medium…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Abigail Bickley

Contribution of coherent electron production to measurements of heavy-flavor decayed electrons in heavy-ion collisions

Heavy quarks, produced at early stages of heavy-ion collisions, are an excellent probe of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) also created in these collisions. Electrons from open heavy-flavor hadron decays (HFE) are good proxies for heavy quarks,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 Shenghui Zhang , Rongrong Ma , Yuanjing Ji , Zebo Tang , Qian Yang , Yifei Zhang , Wangwei Zha

Nucleon structure and hard p-p processes at high energies

The production of heavy flavour hadrons in $pp$ collisions at large values of their transverse momenta can be a new unique source for estimation of intrinsic heavy quark contribution to the proton. We analyze the inclusive production of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 G. I. Lykasov , I. V. Bednyakov , M. A. Demichev , Yu. Yu. Stepanenko

Recent Findings from Heavy-Flavor Angular Correlation Measurements in Hadronic Collisions

The study of angular correlations of heavy-flavor particles in hadronic collisions can provide crucial insight into the heavy quark production, showering, and hadronization processes. The comparison with model predictions allows us to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-03-05 Deepa Thomas , Fabio Colamaria

Heavy Quarkonia Production in p+p Collisions from the PHENIX Experiment

Quarkonia provide a sensitive probe of the properties of the hot dense medium created in high energy heavy ion collisions. Hard scattering processes result in the production of heavy quark pairs that interact with the collision medium…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Abigail Bickley

Single Electrons from Heavy Flavor Decays in p+p Collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV

The invariant differential cross section for inclusive electron production in $p + p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 200$~GeV has been measured by the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider over the transverse momentum range…

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Experimental Overview of Open Heavy Flavor

These are the proceedings of the experimental overview of the production of open heavy flavor at the international conference Strangeness in Quark Matter 2016. Instead of a comprehensive overview, I focus on a few topics which the reader…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-03-08 Kai Schweda

Phenomenology of Heavy Flavors in Ultrarelativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

Some recent experimental results obtained in collisions of heavy nuclei ($\sqrt{s}=200$ GeV) at BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are discussed. The probes of dense matter created in heavy-ion collision by quarkonia, $D$ and $B$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-07-01 A. A. Isayev

Measurements of the suppression and anisotropy of heavy-flavour particles in Pb--Pb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}$= 2.76 TeV with ALICE

Heavy quarks, i.e. charm and beauty, are produced on a shorter time scale with respect to the strongly-interacting matter produced in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. Therefore, they are unique probes to study the mechanisms of parton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-03-08 A. Dubla

Heavy flavor production in p+p and d+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 200 GeV from single leptons over a wide kinematic range

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has measured single electrons at midrapidity and single muons at forward and backward rapidities (1.2<|y|< 2.2) for p+p and d+Au collisions at sqrt(sNN)=200 GeV. The inclusive…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Y. Kwon

Heavy flavour production in proton-lead and lead-lead collisions with LHCb

The LHCb experiment offers the unique opportunity to study heavy-ion interactions in the forward region (2 <eta< 5), in a kinematic domain complementary to the other 3 large experiments at the LHC. The detector has excellent capabilities…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2018-03-14 Michael Winn

Open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions measured by the ALICE detector at the LHC

Open heavy-flavour and quarkonia measurements are important tools to study the hot and dense partonic medium formed in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The modification of their production in those collisions, with respect to the pp…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-06-14 Davide Caffarri

Measurements of heavy-flavour production and azimuthal anisotropy in Pb--Pb collisions with the ALICE detector

Hadrons containing heavy quarks, i.e. charm or beauty, are unique probes of the properties of the hot and dense QCD medium produced in heavy-ion collisions. Due to their large masses, heavy quarks are produced at the initial stage of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Andrea Dubla

Quark Flavor Balancing in Nuclear Collisions

The notion of charge balance function, originally designed to study the evolution of charge production in heavy-ion collisions, is extended to consider quark flavor balancing. This extension is considered based on simulations performed with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-20 Yash Patley , Basanta Nandi , Sadhana Dash , Victor Gonzalez , Claude Pruneau

Heavy flavor suppression predictions at 5.1 TeV Pb+Pb collisions at LHC

High momentum hadron suppression is considered to be an excellent probe of jet-medium interactions in QCD matter created in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions. We previously showed that our dynamical energy loss formalism can…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Magdalena Djordjevic , Marko Djordjevic

Heavy flavour production in high-energy ep collisions

A selection of recent results on heavy quark production at the HERA collider by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations are presented with a focus on charmonium production in DIS, charm fragmentation and beauty production.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 I. Katkov