Alessandro Grelli
(University of Utrecht (NL))
17/08/2012, 14:00
Oral Presentation
The properties of the hot and dense QCD medium formed in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, as well as the mechanism of in-medium partonic energy loss, can be accessed via the measurement of the nuclear modification factor of particle production. The measurement of D meson production provides key tests of parton energy-loss models, which predict that charm quarks should experience less...
Mr
David Tlusty
(PhD student)
17/08/2012, 14:20
Oral Presentation
In relativistic heavy ion collisions at RHIC, heavy quarks are expected to be created from initial hard scatterings. Their large masses are not easily affected by the strong interaction with QCD medium, thus they carry clean information from the system at early stage. The interaction between heavy quarks and the medium is sensitive to the medium dynamics, therefore heavy quarks are suggested...
Davide Caffarri
(Universita e INFN (IT))
17/08/2012, 14:40
Oral Presentation
The ALICE experiment at the LHC studies Pb-Pb and pp collisions with the aim of investigating the properties of the high-density state of strongly-interacting matter, expected to be produced in Pb-Pb collisions.
Heavy quarks are sensitive probes to test the medium properties, since they are formed at shorter time scale with respect to the deconfined state. The elliptic flow v2 of D meson...
Dr
Rachid Nouicer
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL))
17/08/2012, 15:00
Oral Presentation
Well-calibrated penetrating probes are essential for investigating the properties of the hot, dense medium created in high-energy nuclear collisions at RHIC. One such probe are hadrons which carry heavy flavor (charm and bottom quarks). They are a powerful tool for studying the medium because they are generated early in the reaction and subsequently propagate through the created matter.
Two...
Shanshan Cao
(Duke University)
17/08/2012, 15:20
Heavy flavor and quarkonium production
Oral Presentation
Heavy quarks serve as valuable probes of the transport properties of the quark-gluon plasma created in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. Within the framework of a Langevin approach, coupled to a realistic 3D hydrodynamic calculation of the medium, we study the heavy quark energy loss due to quasi-elastic multiple scatterings. We extend this algorithm to include medium-induced gluon radiation...
Mihee Jo
(Korea University (KR))
17/08/2012, 15:40
Heavy flavor and quarkonium production
Oral Presentation
Measurements of the nuclear modification factor of mesons with open heavy flavor content in PbPb collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV from the CMS experiment will be presented. These modification factors provide stringent constraints on the theoretical models of heavy quark energy loss. Until recently only indirect measurements of this effect existed, through single electrons from semileptonic...
