Charm and beauty quarks are an ideal probe of the high-density color-deconfined state of strongly-interacting matter (Quark-Gluon Plasma, QGP) expected to form in high-energy collisions of heavy nuclei. After years of successful measurements of heavy-flavor in-medium energy loss and thermalization via the nuclear modification factor and the elliptic flow experiments at both LHC and RHIC facilities are addressing new observables, like heavy-flavor angular correlations.
The workshop aims at providing an exchange platform for theorists and experimentalists working in the domain of heavy-flavor correlations in nuclear collisions in order to explore the potentials and challenges of heavy-flavor correlation observables from proton-proton to heavy-ion collisions in an informal atmosphere.
In this respect, we would like to start from a panoramic view of the status of the current measurements and move on to defining observables which are most sensitive to properties of the medium and the interaction between the heavy quarks and the medium. We aim at collecting predictions from different models and at understanding the precision required to be sensitive to their differences. To understand the medium influence on the heavy-flavor angular correlations in heavy-ion collisions a precise knowledge of the results from pp collisions is indispensable.
Currently, the feasibility and the performance of measurements of correlations of heavy-flavor signals (e.g. D mesons or electrons from heavy-flavor decay) with charged hadrons and with electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decay in pp, p-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions with the current and upgraded detectors are studied. We also plan, in particular in view of the upgrades, to study observables more directly connected with charm-charm and beauty-beauty correlations.
The workshop aims at providing an exchange platform for theorists and experimentalists working in the domain of heavy-flavor correlations in nuclear collisions in order to explore the potentials and challenges of heavy-flavor correlation observables from proton-proton to heavy-ion collisions in an informal atmosphere.
In this respect, we would like to start from a panoramic view of the status of the current measurements and move on to defining observables which are most sensitive to properties of the medium and the interaction between the heavy quarks and the medium. We aim at collecting predictions from different models and at understanding the precision required to be sensitive to their differences. To understand the medium influence on the heavy-flavor angular correlations in heavy-ion collisions a precise knowledge of the results from pp collisions is indispensable.
Currently, the feasibility and the performance of measurements of correlations of heavy-flavor signals (e.g. D mesons or electrons from heavy-flavor decay) with charged hadrons and with electrons from heavy-flavor hadron decay in pp, p-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions with the current and upgraded detectors are studied. We also plan, in particular in view of the upgrades, to study observables more directly connected with charm-charm and beauty-beauty correlations.
