Conveners
Heavy flavor
- Enrico Scomparin (INFN, Torino)
wenqin xu
(University of California Los Angeles)
5/23/11, 5:30 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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FOR THE STAR COLLABORATION
Heavy Quarks are mostly produced through gluon fusions during the initial stage of the heavy ion collisions. Experimentally heavy quarks are found to suffer a considerable energy loss in the QCD medium with the nuclear modification factor for non-photonic electrons (NPE) from heavy quark decays much smaller than unity in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC. To better...
Xiaoming Zhang
(Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire, Clermont-Ferrand)
5/23/11, 5:50 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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Heavy-quark production is one of the probes for the investigation of the properties
of the high-density medium formed in heavy-ion collisions. This investigation requires also the study of proton-proton collisions. Besides providing the necessary baseline for nucleus-nucleus collisions, proton-proton collisions are of great interest, also in their own right, since they allow to test...
Prof.
Rainer Fries
(Texas A&M University + RBRC)
5/23/11, 6:10 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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We review resonance recombination for quarks and show that it is compatible with quark and hadron distributions in local thermal equilbrium. We then calculate realistic heavy quark phase space distributions in heavy ion collisions using Langevin simulations with non-perturbative interactions in hydrodynamic backgrounds. We hadronize the heavy quarks on the critical hypersurface given by...
Dr
Silvia Masciocchi
(GSI Darmstadt)
5/23/11, 6:30 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are among the most important probes that allow to test perturbative QCD descriptions of hard processes in hadronic interactions, as well as to study the hot matter produced in high energy nucleus-nucleus collisions. Precision measurements of heavy flavour production in proton-proton collisions provide the necessary reference for the interpretation of their...
Dr
Heng-Tong Ding
(Brookhaven National Lab)
5/23/11, 6:50 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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We analyze the low energy part of charmonium spectral functions on large lattices close to the continuum limit in the temperature region $1.5<T/T_c<3$ as well as for $T \simeq 0.75T_c$. We present evidence for the existence of a transport peak above $T_c$ and its absence below $T_c$. The heavy quark diffusion constant is then estimated using the Kubo formula. As part of the calculation we also...
Zhen Hu
(Purdue University)
5/23/11, 7:10 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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The LHC centre-of-mass energy allows copious $\Upsilon$ production in PbPb collisions. Detailed measurements of bottomonium will help characterize the dense matter produced in heavy-ion collisions beyond what was accessible at RHIC (mostly) with charmonia. The full spectroscopy of quarkonium states has been suggested as a possible thermometer for the QGP. With its excellent dimuon mass...
