Conveners
Heavy Flavors
- Itzhak Tserruya (Department of Particle Physics-Weizmann Institute of Science)
Dr
Andrea Rossi
(Sezione di Padova (INFN)-Universita e INFN)
5/27/11, 3:00 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
Parallel
The comparison of heavy flavour production in proton-proton and heavy-ion collisions allows to probe the properties of the high-density QCD medium formed in the latter and to study the mechanism of in-medium partonic energy loss. The ALICE experiment has measured the D meson production in pp and Pb--Pb collisions at the LHC at $\sqrt{s}=7$ and $2.76~{\rm TeV}$ and $\sqrt{s_{NN}} = 2.76~{\rm...
Mr
Hao Ma
(Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)
5/27/11, 3:20 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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Medium modifications of jets have previously been thoroughly studied by calculating the gluon radiation spectrum off a highly energetic quark traversing a hot and dense QCD medium. But the study of the interference effects, the building block of the QCD jet calculation in vacuum, between different radiators has been missing for quite a long time. In this work we calculate, in the eikonal...
J. Matthew Durham
(Stony Brook University)
5/27/11, 3:40 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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Throughout the history of the RHIC physics program, questions concerning the dynamics of heavy quarks have generated much experimental and theoretical investigation. A major focus of the PHENIX experiment is the measurement of these quarks through their semi-leptonic decay channels at mid and forward rapidity.
Heavy quark measurements in p+p collisions give information on the...
Dr
Yifei Zhang
(Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
5/27/11, 4:00 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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Heavy quark production in elementary particle collisions are expected to
be calculable in pQCD. In relativistic heavy ion collisions, heavy
quarks are believed to be an ideal probe to study the properties of the
created QCD medium. Early RHIC measurements were carried out mostly via
semi-leptonic decay electrons. There are limitations in the electron
approach: the charm hadron and...
Dr
Pietro Cortese
(Univ. del Piemonte Orientale, Dip.Scienze eTecnologie)
5/27/11, 4:20 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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p-A collisions provide an essential reference for the study of J/psi suppression in heavy-ion data since they allow to evaluate cold nuclear matter effects. These include initial state effects like shadowing and parton energy loss and final state effects like J/psi breakup in the collisions with cold nuclear matter.
To evaluate these, NA60 has measured J/psi production in p-A collisions at...
Dr
Marco Monteno
(INFN Torino)
5/27/11, 4:40 PM
Heavy flavor and quarkonia production
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The understanding of the heavy-quark dynamics in nucleus-nucleus collisions, so far possible at RHIC only through the inclusive measurement of electron spectra from c and b decays, is becoming now accessible at LHC also through the exclusive reconstruction of open-charm hadrons, thus providing a richer physical information useful to discriminate among different theoretical models.
A complete...
