Speaker
Jan Uphoff
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
Description
For the first time in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions it is possible at the LHC and also at RHIC to measure the suppression and flow of D mesons directly without any contribution from B mesons, giving direct and unbiased insight to the charm quark interactions with the quark gluon plasma. Model calculations and predictions for the nuclear modification factor and elliptic flow of D mesons in ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions are reviewed and compared to experimental data. Furthermore, the D meson results are put into context with other heavy flavor observables.
Primary author
Jan Uphoff
(Goethe University Frankfurt)
