14–17 Nov 2012
Academic Building, Utrecht University
Europe/Zurich timezone

Cold Nuclear Matter Effects on Heavy Quarks from PHENIX

15 Nov 2012, 15:00
30m
Kanunnikenzaal (Academic Building, Utrecht University)

Kanunnikenzaal

Academic Building, Utrecht University

Domplein 29, Utrecht

Speaker

J. Matthew Durham (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Description

The flexibility of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider has allowed the PHENIX Collaboration to perform detailed measurements of heavy quark production in p+p, d+Au, Cu+Cu, and Au+Au collisions at 200 GeV, probing a wide range of temperature and collision geometry.Studies of d+Au collisions have shown significant and surprising cold nuclear matter effects on both charmonium and open heavy flavor, which imply that the initial state baseline for interpreting heavy quark transport in the hot partonic medium formed in Au+Au collisions is highly modified from the elementary p+p or pQCD shape.This talk will discuss recent measurements of cold nuclear matter effects on heavy quarks, and how they may influence our understanding of the cold nuclear environment and the interpretation of Au+Au data.

Primary author

J. Matthew Durham (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

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