22–26 Apr 2013
Marseille, Parc Chanot
Europe/Monaco timezone

Open Heavy Flavor Results from PHENIX

24 Apr 2013, 11:00
20m
Morgiou (Palais des Congrès)

Morgiou

Palais des Congrès

Talk in Parallel Session at DIS2013 Heavy Flavours WG5: Heavy Flavours

Speaker

Laura Patel (Georgia State University)

Description

Due to their large mass, heavy quarks are produced in the earliest   stages of the collision and will, therefore, experience the full   evolution of the system. Leptons resulting from heavy flavor decay are   an important tool to probe the hot and dense matter created in nucleus- nucleus collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC).   PHENIX is capable of measuring electrons in the central rapidity   region (|eta| < 0.35) and muons in the forward rapidity region (1.2 < | eta| < 2.2). PHENIX has multiple cross section measurements in p+p collisions at   200 and 500 GeV. These measurements provide a test of pQCD theory in   additional to a crucial baseline to study the hot and cold nuclear   matter effects present in heavy ion collisions.  Similar measurements   in d+Au allow access to initial state cold nuclear matter effects.   Modification of heavy flavor production in heavy ion collisions (Au+Au   and Cu+Cu) is beyond that expected from cold nuclear matter effects   alone. In this talk, PHENIX open heavy flavor results from p+p, d+Au,   and heavy ion measurements will be presented.

Author

Laura Patel (Georgia State University)

Presentation materials