Measurements of elliptic flow ($v_2$) of light and heavy flavor particles can provide key insight into the transport properties and collective behavior of QGP. The PHENIX experiment has a unique forward rapidity coverage at RHIC ($1.2\leq|\eta|\leq2.2$), and large muon datasets collected in 2014 and 2016 with Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 200$ GeV, allowing for statistically significant...
Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are useful probes for investigating the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) generated in ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions. Measurements of the nuclear modification factor $R_{\rm{AA}}$ of charm and beauty hadrons offer a means to characterize the in-medium energy loss of heavy quarks in the QGP. Insights into their participation in the medium...
The interaction of heavy quarks with the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) affects their azimuthal distribution and transverse momentum ($p_{\mathrm{T}}$) spectrum. Hence, azimuthal anisotropy coefficients ($v_n$) and nuclear modification factors ($R_{AA}$) of heavy flavor hadrons are vital probes to study QGP properties. This talk presents the first measurements of the elliptic ($v_{2}$) and...
Charm and beauty quarks are powerful tools to characterize the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) produced in heavy-ion collisions. Although they are initially produced out of kinetic equilibrium via hard partonic scattering processes, recent measurements of anisotropic flow of charmed hadrons pose the question regarding the degree thermalization of heavy quarks in the medium. Our recent work [1] has...
Charm-baryon production measurements in proton-proton (pp) collisions at the LHC are fundamental tools to investigate the charm-quark hadronisation and to test pQCD calculations. Recent measurements in pp collisions have shown baryon-to-meson ratios significantly larger than those in $\mathrm{e^+e^-}$ collisions, challenging the validity of theoretical calculations based on the factorisation...
The differences in hadron chemistry observed at e+e- machines versus hadron
colliders may indicate that the mechanisms by which partons evolve into visible
matter are not universal. In particular, the presence of many other quarks
produced in the underlying event may affect the hadronization process. With
full particle ID, precision vertexing, and a high rate DAQ, the LHCb detector
is...