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Hadrons carrying heavy quarks, i.e. charm or bottom, are important probes of the hot and dense medium created in relativistic heavy ion collisions. Heavy quark-antiquark pairs are mainly produced in initial hard scattering processes of…

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Measurement of electrons from heavy-flavor decays from $p$+$p$, $d$+Au, and Cu+Cu collisions in the PHENIX experiment

Charm and bottom quarks are formed predominantly by gluon fusion in the initial hard scatterings at RHIC, making them good probes of the full medium evolution. Previous measurements at RHIC have shown large suppression and azimuthal…

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Energy Loss and Flow of Heavy Quarks in Au+Au Collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has measured electrons from heavy flavor (charm and bottom) decays for 0.3 < p_T < 9 GeV/c at midrapidity (|y| < 0.35) in Au+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV. The…

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Charm Production at RHIC

Observations by the PHENIX and STAR collaborations suggest that a strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma is produced in heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). After a brief introduction to heavy-ion physics,…

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Evidence of Mass Ordering of Charm and Bottom Quark Energy Loss in Au+Au Collisions at RHIC

Partons traversing the strongly interacting medium produced in heavy-ion collisions are expected to lose energy depending on their color charge and mass. We measure the nuclear modification factors for charm- and bottom-decay electrons,…

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Measurement of D-meson azimuthal anisotropy in Au+Au 200 GeV collisions at RHIC

Heavy quarks are produced through initial hard scatterings and they are affected by the hot and dense medium created in heavy-ion collisions throughout its whole evolution. Due to their heavy mass, charm quarks are expected to thermalize…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-23 Michael R. Lomnitz

An experimental review on heavy flavor $v_{2}$ in heavy-ion collision

For over a decade now, the primary purpose of relativistic heavy-ion collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been to study the properties of QCD matter under extreme conditions -high…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-07-19 Md. Nasim , Roli Esha , Huan Zhong Huang

Charm quarks in medium and their contribution to di-electron spectra in relativistic heavy ion collisions

We study the dynamics of charm quarks in the partonic medium and its implication to the di-electron spectra in high energy heavy ion collisions. The charm quarks traversing a thermal medium is simulated by the relativistic Langevin equation…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-05-22 Hao-jie Xu , Xin Dong , Li-juan Ruan , Qun Wang , Zhang-bu Xu , Yi-fei Zhang

Heavy quark transport in heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC within the UrQMD transport model

We have implemented a Langevin approach for the transport of heavy quarks in the UrQMD hybrid model. The UrQMD hybrid approach provides a realistic description of the background medium for the evolution of relativistic heavy ion collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-13 Thomas Lang , Hendrik van Hees , Jan Steinheimer , Marcus Bleicher

Heavy Quark Energy Loss in High Multiplicity Proton Proton Collisions at LHC

One of the most promising probes to study deconfined matter created in high energy nuclear collisions is the energy loss of (heavy) quarks. It has been shown in experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) that even charm and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Sascha Vogel , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner , Joerg Aichelin

Medium Modification of Charm Production in Relativistic Heavy Ion Collisions due to Pre-equilibrium Dynamics of Partons at $\sqrt{s_{\textrm {NN}}}$= 0.2--5.02 TeV

We study the production dynamics of charm quarks in the parton cascade model for relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energies. The model is eminently suited for a study of the pre-equilibrium dynamics of charm quarks at modest…

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Jet-like correlations of heavy-flavor particles - from RHIC to LHC

Measurements at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory have revealed strong modification of the jet structure in high-energy heavy-ion collisions, which can be attributed to the interaction of hard…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2015-05-28 Andre Mischke

High $p_T$ correlations of $\gamma$ and charged hadrons at RHIC

Prompt photon production in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions provides a calibrated probe for the study of the properties of high energy density QCD matter. Especially interesting are the measurements of $\gamma$-tagged jets where the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Kirill Filimonov

Understanding RHIC Collisions: Modified QCD fragmentation vs quark coalescence from a thermalized flowing medium

The hydrodynamic (hydro) model applied to data from the relativistic heavy ion collider (RHIC) suggests that a dense QCD medium opaque to partons is formed in more-central Au-Au collisions. However, two-component spectrum analysis reveals a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-30 Thomas A. Trainor

High $p_T$ hadrons in Au+Au collisions at RHIC

High pT hadrons produced in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC probe nuclear matter at extreme conditions of high energy density. Experimental measurements in Au+Au collisions at \sqrtsNN=130, 200 GeV establish the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-08-23 K. Filimonov

Sensitivity of Heavy-Quark Dipolar Flow to its Initial Spatial Distributions in Cu+Au Collisions

We investigate charm-quark dynamics in asymmetric Cu+Au collisions at top RHIC energy using a Langevin approach embedded in a realistic hydrodynamic background. The intrinsic asymmetry of the colliding nuclei leads to a spatially lopsided…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-05-27 Ankit Kumar Panda , Tribhuban Parida

Heavy-flavor observables at RHIC and LHC

We investigate the charm-quark propagation in the QGP media produced in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and the LHC. Purely collisional and radiative processes lead to a significant suppression of final $D$-meson spectra at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Marlene Nahrgang , Joerg Aichelin , Steffen Bass , Pol Bernard Gossiaux , Klaus Werner

Heavy-Quark Probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC

Thermalization and collective flow of charm (c) and bottom (b) quarks in ultra-relativistic heavy-ion collisions are evaluated based on elastic parton rescattering in an expanding quark-gluon plasma (QGP). We show that resonant interactions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Hendrik van Hees , Vincenzo Greco , Ralf Rapp

Hard scattering at RHIC: Experimental review

The most significant results on hard scattering processes in Au+Au, p+p, and d+Au collisions at sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV obtained after 3 years of operation at the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) are summarized. Hadron production at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 David d'Enterria