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Measurement of charm production cross-section and leptons from its semileptonic decay at RHIC

In this thesis, we present the measurements of $D^{0}\to K\pi$ at low $p_T$ ($p_T\leq2$ GeV/$c$) and non-photonic electron spectra ($0.9\leq p_T\leq5$ GeV/$c$) from $D^0$ semi-leptonic decay. In addition, we use a newly proposed technique…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 Yifei Zhang

Overview of charm production at RHIC

In this presentation, I discussed a) the charm total cross-section and its comparisons to measurements at other beam energies and pQCD calculations; b) the semileptonic decay of charmed hadrons and the sensitivity of non-photonic leptons to…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-07-19 Zhangbu Xu

Scaling of the charm cross-section and modification of charm $p_{T}$ spectra at RHIC

Charm production from the direct reconstruction of $D^0$ ($D^0\to K\pi$ up to 2 GeV/$c$) and indirect lepton measurements via charm semileptonic decays ($c\to e+X$ at 0.9\textless$p_T$\textless5.0 GeV/$c$ and $c\to \mu+X$ at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Chen Zhong

Charmed hadron production at low transverse momentum in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

We report measurements of charmed hadron production from hadronic ($D^{0}\rightarrow K\pi$) and semileptonic ($\mu$ and $e$) decays in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions at RHIC. Analysis of the spectra indicates that charmed hadrons have a different…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2014-04-28 B. I. Abelev

Charmed mesons and leptons from semileptonic decays at the LHC

We discuss production of charmed mesons as well as electrons/muons from semileptonic decays of charm and bottom mesons in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The cross section for inclusive production of $c \bar c$ and $b \bar b$ pairs is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-01 Rafal Maciula , Antoni Szczurek

Heavy quark production at collider energies: some selected topics

We discuss production of charm quarks and mesons as well as nonphotonic electrons in $pp$ scattering at RHIC. The distributions in rapidity and transverse momentum of charm and bottom quarks/antiquarks are calculated in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-12 Antoni Szczurek

SemiCharmTag: a tool for Semileptonic Charm tagging

A method for selecting and/or rejecting leptons from charm semileptonic decays based on the tagging of the secondary vertex using a hadron track is introduced. The method is developed for dimuon Drell-Yan measurements in LHCb using full…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-04-14 Carolina Arata , Imanol Corredoira , Alisha Lightbody , Michael Winn

Measurement of the Semileptonic Branching Ratio of Charm Hadrons Produced in Z to ccbar Decays

The inclusive charm hadron semileptonic branching fractions B(c to e) and B(c to mu) in Z to ccbar events have been determined using 4.4 million hadronic Z decays collected with the OPAL detector at LEP. A charm-enriched sample is obtained…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL Collaboration , G. Abbiendi et al

Heavy flavor physics at STAR

In these proceedings, heavy flavor production as measured by STAR is disscussed. This can be done directly by reconstruction of the hadronic decays or indirectly by the measurement of electrons from semileptonic decays of heavy quark…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaroslav Bielcik

Hadro-chemistry effects on charm decayed leptons in heavy-ion collisions

Charm-hadrons possess versatile hadro-chemistry as characterized by various transverse-momentum-dependent ratios between their different species. In particular, the charm hadro-chemistry may be modified in relativistic heavy-ion collisions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-23 Kai Lu , Min He

Investigation of charm and beauty production via semileptonic decays of heavy-flavour hadrons in pp at 7 TeV and Pb--Pb at 2.76 TeV with ALICE

Electron spectra measured with ALICE at mid-rapidity are used to study the production of hadrons carrying a charm or a beauty quark. The production cross section of electrons from heavy-flavour hadron decays is measured in pp collisions at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 S. Masciocchi

QCD Predictions for Lepton Spectra in Inclusive Heavy Flavour Decays

We derive the lepton spectrum in semileptonic beauty decays from a nonperturbative treatment of QCD; it is based on an expansion in $1/m_Q$ with $m_Q$ being the heavy flavour quark mass. The leading corrections arising on the $1/m_Q$ level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 I. I. Bigi , M. Shifman , N. G. Uraltsev , A. Vainshtein

Measurement of the nuclear modification factor for muons from charm and bottom hadrons in Pb+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV with the ATLAS detector

Heavy-flavour hadron production provides information about the transport properties and microscopic structure of the quark-gluon plasma created in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions. A measurement of the muons from semileptonic decays…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2022-04-21 ATLAS Collaboration

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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A new correlation method to identify and separate charm and bottom production processes at RHIC

Electrons from semileptonic decays of heavy-flavor mesons (D and B) allow to study the energy loss of heavy-quarks in nuclear collisions at sqrt(s) = 200 GeV at RHIC. Since pQCD calculations have shown that the crossing point where bottom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 Andre Mischke

Open charm production at RHIC

In this report, we present the measurements of open charm production at mid-rapidity in p+p, d+Au, and Au+Au collisions at RHIC energies. The techniques of direct reconstruction of open charm via its hadronic decay and indirect measurements…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhangbu Xu

Electron Spectra for $D$ and $B$ Meson Semi-leptonic Decays at RHIC from PYTHIA with Modified Heavy Quark Fragmentation

We present a study of charmed hadron transverse momentum distribution from p+p collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}=200$ GeV using the PYTHIA Monte Carlo event generator. The PHENIX tuned PYTHIA parameter set based on electron measurements alone…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiaoyan Lin

Experimental study for leptonic and semileptonic decays in the charm sector

Leptonic and semileptonic decays in the charm sector have been well studied in recent years. With the largest data sample near $D\bar D$ threshold, precision measurements of leptonic and semileptonic decays of charm meson and baryon are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-06-24 S. F. Zhang

Charm Physics Confronts High-$p_T$ Lepton Tails

We present a systematic survey of possible short-distance new-physics effects in (semi)leptonic charged- and neutral-current charmed meson decays. Using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) to analyze the most relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-02 Javier Fuentes-Martin , Admir Greljo , Jorge Martin Camalich , Jose David Ruiz-Alvarez

New mechanisms of charm production

We discuss production of charm quarks, mesons as well as nonphotonic electrons in $pp$ scattering at RHIC. The distributions in rapidity and transverse momentum of charm and bottom quarks/antiquarks are calculated in the $k_t$-factorization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-13 Antoni Szczurek